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offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2007-02-01 16:02 [#02043055]
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What is an "Electrosonic Apollo"?

A friend got one from where he works. We're trying to figure
out what it is. It has a cassette deck, power in, 3 power
out, some cables that look like midi cables, and some other
shit (it screams about its "dissolve" capability, as does
the one website that we found it on sale for e1800). It's a
pretty heavy piece of equipment too. We figure it might be
used to control light shows..?

Any ideas?


 

offline shady from chicago (United States) on 2007-02-01 16:04 [#02043057]
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sounds weird, but no i have no idea.


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2007-02-01 17:00 [#02043114]
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You know like in "Diamonds are Forever" Blofeld uses a
common or garden cassette with codes on it and places it in
a big mainframe thing to control his laser satellite, maybe
it's one of those


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2007-02-01 17:41 [#02043137]
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Being a Bond nut, would you be interested in buying one of
these laser satellite control systems for the meagre sum of
1200 euro? It is, no doubt, a rare piece of engineering
excellence, not to mention a part of film history.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2007-02-01 18:13 [#02043168]
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it says it's an Audio/Video presentation unit

This leads me to believe that the dissolve feature is a
simple fade/crossfade effect for video or something... it's
also got an amp, and the three DIN in/outs are probably for
multiple sources.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2007-02-01 18:15 [#02043172]
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don't take my word for it, though... dissolve could be just
about anything...


 

offline PNES on 2007-02-01 18:46 [#02043185]
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Maybe it is to control an audio-animatronic (robot). This
is what I hope.


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2007-02-01 18:47 [#02043186]
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that would make sense. deadly. hope it works. megabux


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2007-02-01 19:15 [#02043202]
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It is basically a mixer for slide shows and stuff...the tape
deck is so you can play music as part of the presentation.
The dissolve unit is basically a hardware special effects
unit to do fancy transitions between the slides. It is
obviously designed for use with two slide projectors so as
to allow the smooth dissolve between slides and behind the
scenes movement to the next slide on each projector.


 


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