Since the old Blacktown Sound Labs web site featured pictures of the studio prominently, I never posted a blog with those pictures. But now they don’t have a home on this site, so I figured I’d post them so there’s still a photographic record of the Blacktown setup. Plus I threw in the Blacktown Sound Labs logo for good measure.
Now that Blacktown Sound Labs (as a recording studio) is naught but a legacy, I figured it was time to build a new web site for future endeavors. Well, you’re looking at it: ObsoleteAudio.org. I don’t even know if I’ll call my recording services Obsolete Audio (or anything at all, for that matter)… But I thought it was an acceptable name for a web site.
So this is going to be more than just a web site for audio production projects, it’s going to be a collecting place for music, software development, design, photography, DIY-ism, and other random/sundry subjects. And I’d like to eventually invite some friends who are interested in the same sorts of things to blog here also, or have their existing blog aggregated.
Normally I shy away from too much surfing on Craigslist’s music gear pages — it just makes me want to throw money to every poster on the site and pick up as much gear as I can. I decided to look up some closed back cab’s on the site and I found a GREAT deal. This cab for $250 loaded with UK made Celestion Vintage-30 speakers.
My great friend Darren Morton told me to stick away from Vintage 30′s but I couldn’t pass on this deal. I drove her home and plugged in my Blues Junior just to see how much bigger the tiny amp would sound, and it was like I plugged into a different amp!
I am ordering a new speaker cabinet for my Blues Jr. I sold the AC30 the other day to a friend of mine and I am ordering a custom made guitar cabinet from Weber Speakers.
An empty guitar cab
What’s cool about this cab is that it will have the option to convert from a closed back 2×12 to an open back 2×12. I’m also loading the cabinet with a ceramic Weber Blue Dog speaker [hand made version of an old Celestion blue Neo-Dog speaker found in old Vox amps] and a Weber Silver Bell speaker [Weber's hand made version of the old fantastic Celestion ceramic speakers found in old Marshall combo amps].