mal421 Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 I have just bought an old mixing desk . I only wanted the belden multicore and the flight case but the seller insisted I take the mixer as well . Anyway , it's a Canary Sterling Series 16 - 4 - 2 . I've never heard of them but it's built like a brick outhouse and to a very high standard . Anyone know anything about them ? Purely out of interest because it will probably end up in a skip it's very big for a 16 channel desk and I really nead the space . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
london sound Posted October 1, 2005 Share Posted October 1, 2005 Used to be used a lot for broadcast and corporate events. Sound quality was ok. Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce Posted October 1, 2005 Share Posted October 1, 2005 Almost certainly not the same crowd, but there used to be a company called "Canary" which made networking equipment - this was at least 15 years ago. All I can remember about it was that it was "cheep" Bruce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnomatron Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 Don't skip it, that seems like a waste! Ask your local schools, churches, etc. if they want it, on condition they come and take it away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 no - ebay in vintage audio. Bet you can make a few quid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howiemarsh Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 My band had a 12 channel Canary desk in the late 80s. It was quite old then. All the lights on it used to flash at random. Worked ok other than that tho. It was around the same size as my Soundcraft 400B 16-4-2 (which I still have). Certainly a 2 man lift! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Chivers Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Canary were a UK manufacturer in the early 1980's. Their kit was mainly 'budget' but was well built and lasts. When Canary ceased trading, the designs moved on to a company called 3rd Generation. I have an old canary mixer which still works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlyfarly Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 I seem to remember Canary doing some disco gear too...maybe wrong but I do remember the brand. Please give this a home or sell it on eBay. Have you tested it all? If it works I'm sure it will give someone happy service until its components turn till dust. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbuckley Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Nostalgia time - I remember when Canary was an aspirational brand to me. As a teenager, I went to a Virgin Records all day gig at the Liverpool Stadium, which had an admission of 50p. The only band I clearly remember was Supercharge, led by Albie Donnelly, and I'm still a big fan all these years later. Anyway, Supercharge had a Canary mixer, and it was bigger and better equipped than any of the mixers I had used up to that point. What it couldn't have had was polarity invert buttons, or if it did the op didn't understand what they were for, as the band started with a guitar intro, and the op raised the fader from zero to a decent level, going through a null as he did so as the PA cancelled the onstage (Traynor) amp... 'Tis funny how some detail of this gig decades later are crystal clear in my memory, just like they happened thismorning, yet most of it is just stuff in the mush of time... I've no idea who I went there with, for instance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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