old Alice 828 and 828S
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I see that they are getting popular again!! (a ‘non-working’ one sold on ebay yesterday for £265) The only comments I will make are…. the Mk2 is more reliable than the Mk1; all the 828S versions are Mk2.
And yes, they were ahead of their time and they do sound good.
But if you are thinking of buying one, don’t forget that I introduced them in 1979….. that was 35 years ago!
Good Morning Sir!
You will be pleased to know that there are two 828S consoles still in daily use at a certain hospital radio station in Essex – and for my sins I’ve agreed to give them their third major overhaul. Predictably, they now bear little resemblance to the original design – with extra channels crammed in, a bolt-on outside-source submixer, mods to the monitoring and so on. (The submixer is my design, but there was a lot of undocumented legacy work that I inherited.)
Measured performance and reliability are still good by any standard; replacement with a digital desk is not an option!
I am therefore hoping you can help me. First of all, I would love to obtain my own definitive set of schematics; there is a tattered station copy that is somewhat incomplete (it’s the original pot values that I’d be most interested in). And secondly, those Alps slide pots with 20 x 8mm levers are long obsolete. (Bourns do a variety of short-lever types). Do you have any idea who might have some old-stock units still available?
Happy to discuss at length off-line if you prefer, and of course pay the cost of providing documentation – if this is possible.
By the way I’m currently sitting in front of my ex-Devon Air ABCM console, with programme going through it
Kind regards,
Rich
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