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I’m not sure if anyone is still interested but I thought I should update this thread.

I e-mailed Mike Law at BCD to ask him about the COOBE. He said that he “had a hand in the COOBE but final design and manufacture was undertaken by a Telecoms company as Alice went into receivership during the development of this product.” He doesn’t have any info about it and didn’t test any of them either.

The new Alice started as Broadcast Designs by Andrew Gemmell-Smith bought the name after the initial Alice went bust so aren’t anything to do with it either. Mike doesn’t know who to ask about it either, which he says is unusual for him.

The only direct technical reference about it I’ve found on the interweb is from http://www.bbceng.info (Thank you markdg)

Quote:

EP110011 EP11/11

Commentator o. B. equipment. The COOBE is a portable, 3 Mic & 1 replay input device for radio commentary at OB sites. It uses a Music & Control line as a link to the studio. Power requirements PP9 + 2 x PP3 Batteries. Equipment superseded: EP11/1. SCPD 1986.

http://www.bbceng.info/Designs/RDCE/part_I/101to200.htm” class=”bbcode_url”>http://www.bbceng.info/Designs/RDCE/part_I/101to200.htm

So the trail has gone cold for the moment. I’ll see if I can have a detailed snoop around my units at some point soon to see if I can find any further leads. If anyone else finds out anything could they post it here? Thanks!

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I’ve just managed to pick up two of these in the recent BBC TV Centre auction. Ted, you wouldn’t happen to have a schematic (or any other documentation) for these would you? I’m thinking that converting them for use as stand-alone mic pres might be useful.

If not I’m guessing I should try Mike Law at BCD…

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Hi Ted

Oops, I seem to have left this hanging for ages. Sorry about that – I’ve been pretty busy (though of course everyone says that!). Anyway I’ll e-mail about a couple of UK adaptors in a minute.

One other thing about the P3 I got second-hand is that it sounds different to the one I already had. It seems louder and gritty, and less sweet generally. Was there any changes in circuits of the P3 throughout it’s production run? Is it possible that a component has failed causing the change in sound? The tiny buttons for line/mic and on/off of the comp are red instead of the black of my original version, is that any clue?

If the difference between the two is a failure or deviation from the design from my original one would it be possible for you to modify/repair the red-button one to the same spec as the black-button one? And how much would that cost as a ball park figure? Just thought I’d ask, thanks for being so patient!

simon

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