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Prism Analog Recording studio find

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Does anyone know more about the cans found while the owner war re-habbing his recording studio? Prism Analog was the name of the studio. There were many quarts. Apparently, the entire lot was sold. Have these cans surfaced ?

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WOW, great Find !
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Now this is a great wall find. Always nice to see "dusty" instead of "rusty" cans for a change.
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With all the big conventions around the corner maybe they will be hitting the market soon. Wow what a find!
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I think I found the buyer on ebay. This guy has a Dawsons and a Krueger that look like they could have come from this find.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/bart2112/m.html ... pg=&_from=
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Any idea of how many cans total were found?
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iggyks wrote: Fri May 12, 2017 6:52 pm Any idea of how many cans total were found?
If he is selling at $800 and paid $15K I am assuming quite a few.
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clark wrote: Thu May 11, 2017 9:23 pm I think I found the buyer on ebay. This guy has a Dawsons and a Krueger that look like they could have come from this find.
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any updates?
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Non-Profit, Non-Digital: Prism Analog Studio in Maine
Published Dec 22, 2016 by Peter Schu Interviews

When Nick Johnson pulled up the floor in his bathroom to renovate, he discovered a stash that would change his life.

Cone-top beer cans in mint condition. A collector's dream.

Sitting in the space between the joists above the subfloor were dozens of cone-top beer cans, decades old and dusty, but otherwise in mint condition. At first, he wasn’t sure what to do with them.

“I thought they were just old cans from the 1930s. Nothing special. But they were in perfect condition. No rust, no UV degradation.”

As a test, he cleaned one of them up and listed it on eBay. Within minutes, it sold. Then a user messaged him asking if he had more. When Nick revealed the full extent of his find, the user offered him $15,000 for the whole lot, sight unseen.

This wasn’t beer money or new microphone money. This was life-changing money.

Rather than put it back into the restoration, he decided to use the unexpected cash to follow through on one of his dreams: to build an all-analog studio focused on serving musicians who might otherwise not be able to afford it.

Now that dream is (mostly) realized: Prism Analog studio in Portland, Maine now offers access to top-tier analog recording gear with an in-house engineer at extremely low cost.

There's a Kickstarter campaign to round out the rest of the studio's gear, but Nick is playing the long game here. He views this as a passion project, a service, not a high-risk make-it-or-break-it business venture (he still has a day job at Apple).

I recently caught up with Nick to discuss the “fatigue of digital existence,” the role of non-profit studios, and the genius of Steven Albini.

After you decided to use your unexpected $15,000 windfall to open Prism Analog, where exactly did that money go?

It went towards the big, capital-intensive analog machines first. I have a beautiful 24-track 2" tape machine - a Studer A800 MKIII - that has been thoroughly restored. You could call it the Rolls Royce of tape machines. It dominated the high-end studios of the '80s and '90s. That's where the bulk of the money went.

This is the exact tape machine that recorded Siamese Dream (1993) by The Smashing Pumpkins when it lived at Triclops Studio in Marietta, Gerogia.

In addition to the Studer, I purchased an Otari MTR-12 mixdown tape machine, a SoundWorkshop 34C mixing desk (the same one you'll find over at The Record Co. in Boston, another non-profit studio), and a nice variety of high quality microphones.
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