STOLEN: customized xone62 mixer!

ferd · Post by **ferd** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:12 pm

probably stolen by someone who thinks good music comes from a mixer

Kilevox · Post by **Kilevox** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:12 pm

how stupid can people are to do something like that ???

If I know who has it stolen....

....first I would take each knob of this mixer and push into his/her eyes :twisted:

.... then I would call Richie, and tell him that he can have it back but without any knobs!!

derotter · Post by **derotter** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:10 pm

it's quite stupid, any doubt about that...but how is possible that nobody noticed the steal of the Xone 62 ???

I mean, this mixer is massive !!!

kwality · Post by **kwality** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:38 am

Has he looked behind the sofa? That's where I always seem to lose things.

Seriously though, that's a real shame someone was stupid enough to steal his mixer. Maybe it was Behringer, and they're gonna release a cheaper crappier version?

jessejames · Post by **jessejames** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:56 am

robert lowell wrote:adding mods to a a&h 62 seems fairly simple. nothing so custom it can't be replicated easily. they just added midi to control two laptops without a mouse from what it looks like, maybe added sends/returns if it didnt have them already. his dad's a electrical engineer and built it for him using the midibox.org/ucapps hardware, so really he's not out much. sentimental value of course & time spent building a new one. now if it was his custom rig he used for the plastikman show at mutek, thats a different story. that thing was a complete custom job probably took a half year or more to assemble/build. either way its a shitty thing to do to anyone.

I've had the opportunity to see Richie play up close only once. And better believe I was checkin out that mixer! One thing I did notice was a knob towards the top of the channel readouts that apparently turned on his special delay and then tweaked the timing the more he turned it to the right.

victorgonzales · Post by **victorgonzales** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:34 am

kwality wrote:Has he looked behind the sofa? That's where I always seem to lose things.

Seriously though, that's a real shame someone was stupid enough to steal his mixer. Maybe it was Behringer, and they're gonna release a cheaper crappier version?

LOL nice one!!

PsyTox · Post by **PsyTox** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:17 am

derotter wrote:it's quite stupid, any doubt about that...but how is possible that nobody noticed the steal of the Xone 62 ??? I mean, this mixer is massive !!!

you'd be suprised how often gear gets stolen on events and even from clubs. It's all perception: if you see a guy walking through the back door with a flight case or you see guys loading gear in a truck, you will think "yeah, that's probably the guys from the PA". During the party, there's a lot of security around (but usually not on stage) but after or before the party, it's amazing how easily you can walk in and out the venue.

To give you a dumb example: a few years back I set a meeting with a friend of mine who had to work on I Love Techno. I just walked in to the hall at 18h00, walked back stage, got the recording equipment I needed to get from him, went back out and on my way out I asked a guy if he had a pass for me because "the boss" didn't get enough of them, and so I got a pass too

The point is: no one asked ID, or why I was there, I just walked in and wasn't stopped once... if I wanted I could have just taken one of the flight cases with mixers or players, walked out of there and no one would've known.

So, this Hawtin story doesn't come as a shocker really... there just are people who do stupid stuff like this. I guess the best thing for Hawtin is to check eBay...

Gareth_T · Post by **Gareth_T** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:51 pm

Hmmmm.....