My 1970's Summer Project

In the late 1970's, I spent a good amount of time, effort and money to build this beast to mate up with my Otari MX5050 8 track reel to reel analog tape recorder.

Machined all the panels and hardware along with etching the pcb's at home.
Was designed to use 990 opamps running on biploar 24 vdc rails.

Very few affordable "compact" mixing consoles were available back then.

Still have this collecting dust in the garage and am now considering retrofitting it with valves.
Maybe, maybe not...

Shania Twain Live at Key Arena with Selfie Dude

Derek Frank with Shania Twain at Key Arena Seattle June 5, 2015

Great show and terrific back up musicians!
Derek Frank on bass.

Fender 1956 Tweed Tremolux Demo

Quick and dirty demo of my 56 Tremolux.

Shania Twain Rock This Country Seattle

Gibson J-200 Ramble On & Moonshadow Medley

This J-200 project build of mine required a neck reset so I made this quickie jam of it just prior to steaming off the neck.
I wanted to be able to compare the sound of the guitar's tone before and after the neck reset.
Not a serious attempt at making music so don't expect much.

Thanks to Robert Plant for his vocals!