XLNT! Canare Pro Tools Audio MIDI UCP Panel Neutrik Switchcraft XLR TRS ELCO/EDAC Local Pickup Los Angeles

This is custom, so there is only one (1) of these in stock as I start this.

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This is a SUPER nice Pro Tools rack UCP panel with the black brushed anodized aluminum. This came from a Pro Tools rack in a local Pro Tools music room at least 10 years ago. It was hidden here in my room, sitting with a super vintage AMS AudioFile hard disk recording system, the oldest I've seen, and I was thinking those would be racked together in a setup I could move around from here to the warehouse and back, but I never got to it, and don't need it.

The center panel is a bulkhead with feed throughs to route digital audio clocks, blackburst, SMPTE, video, etc. on BNC and RCA phono connectors.

The Canare 16-pair MIDI snake comes out about 51", usable length more like 49", and the Canare 24-pair audio cable snake comes out about 29"-35".

The XLRs are Neutrik, the TRS (and they ARE all TRS, not mono TS plugs), and the ELCO/EDAC are ELCO on the 90-pin and EDAC on the 120-pin.

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Either or both setups in this panel could go in your rack, and be modified to suit.

One of the many nice things about ELCO/EDACs is that you can use the (expensive) pin extractor, put it in a pin position, press the plunger, and it will depress the flippers on the gold ELCO pin holding it in, and you can withdraw it.

Then you can put it in another position to change the pinout, or in another pinblock, for example, those useless ELCO 56s that come in all the time (most Neve setups seem to have had that), de-pin them, and press those back into ELCO 90s in the SAC-90 24-track rental standard configuration. Again and again.

Or if wanting to do something else, like convert those MIDI cables into loose MIDI cables by getting more plugs and putting them on the end, instead of just snipping off those very expensive, very well installed gold ELCO pins and putting the connectors on, I'd move up about 12"-14" from the ELCO 90 end, and leave that ELCO 90 on there, and just chop it there, and then I could later make a shorty adapter using an ELCO 90 that already has a ton of work into putting the pins on and inserting them.

And I never got into their insertion tool, I found it easier to just use a small screwdriver to push the pins in.

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About UCP Panels:

Middle Atlantic has the Universal Connector Panel system of the black brushed anodized aluminum panels with all sorts of cutouts, and since they are aluminum, it's easy to re-tool them or buy blanks from them and cut your own holes with a hand drill and hand file. These are mounted with countersunk matching very neat black Allen head flush screws tapped into the solid aluminum rails in the back, with aluminum rack ears on the sides. These are nicer than anything else I've ever seen from Middle Atlantic, most of which is cheap steel painted/powdercoated black with self-tapping screws and screw heads sticking out (a jillion computer, VCR, etc. rack shelves I've had from Middle Atlantic).

Redco makes a sort of abhorrent thin cheap steel copy of it with self-tapping sheet metal screws, not countersunk, very poor looking up close. A 99-cent switch plate at Home Depot was better made and better thought out than that. Good, good people there at Redco, but they will do A N Y T H I N G to bring something in at a lower price (like their Apple G5 rack, compare to the Marathon G-Rack, what a joke). 100% of the Mogami snakes I've sold were better than what the Redco "price calculator" generates, which is the price for plugs tacked onto cut bulk cable and kicked out the door, with no detail at all.

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What's included:

the panel with attached cables

What's not included:

Anything else.

As always, whatever box, instructions/user manuals, accessories shownin the photos are also included. If none are shown, then not included.

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This Canare cable is 16 pair on the MIDI and 24 pair on the audio. Both have the expensive cable covers in the back, which they really don't need for panel use, so you could remove them and use them as cables.

Please look at the photos carefully, this is very clean. Not an ex-stage/road cable setup.

This is expertly built.

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Please look at the photos carefully, this is high end work. This is not what you get from the companies/stores with the cable calculator and it's being listed for less than the price of the panels, raw cable and XLRs, TRSs, and ELCO/EDACs, and nothing for the labor.

This is in excellent condition and it shows very, very little wear. There are no nicks I can see.

Defects:

One screw missing on the left side. See the photos, only very, very light marks in a few areas. Otherwise, nothing I can see.

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Shipping

This will be safely wrapped and packed for shipment.

Free local pickup in the Los Feliz district of L.A. is okay if you can
work around my busy schedule.