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Lang Audio of the 1960s

Download the six-page circa 1965 Lang Specialized Audio Equipment Catalog:

DOWNLOAD: Lang_Audio_Electronics_catalog

Products covered, with photos and text description, include: Lang LRP-1B tape recorder electronics (for Ampex 300 generation machines), LTP-1A tape playback amp, LRA-1C record/playback amp, LMX-4 and LMX-5 broadcast consoles, LMP-1 stereo portable mixer, Record Stereo Mixer, LMX-2 mixer, LPM-2 portable mixer, PEQ-2 and PEQ-3 equalizers, Lang Sync Panel, Disc Recording Equalizer, plus many more accessories.

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Lang was known primarily for the various upgrades and support equipment that they manufactured for Ampex tape machines.  As shown above, they also offered solid-state equalizer that appear similar in function to the popular Pultec units of the era.  There are also several models of audio mixers on offer, a few of which were available as early as 1961.

Above: the Lang ‘compact’ mono mixer.  Advert circa 1961.  Looks very similar to my later stereo Gately mixing system , which I spent $250 and several hours on…and i still can’t figure out what the hell i’m gonna use it for.

Above: the Lang Raecord portable stereo (of a sort…) mixer, also introduced circa 1961.    Seems pretty scarce.

4 replies on “Lang Audio of the 1960s”

Lang was to Ampex pro electronics what Hickok and Jetronix were to Tektronix tube oscilloscopes, or Eldico was to the Collins S/Line: a cloner, offering interchangeable less expensive stuff that worked, more or less. Some of it was satisfactory and some of it wasn’t. Ampex and Tektronix were first tier military, space, and comint/sigint vendors and their stuff was high dollar. Others sought to make similar stuff cheaper. It was a business model that worked and it did drive costs down somewhat.

I have a model lap 1B and would like to have specs on that particular model, also I have learned that it is the lower end, but I would like to have something that would tell more about it and what it does or is. Thank you.

Coxsone Dodd had two LMX-2 compact mixers built into his console at Studio One. I have a great photo, but no way to attach it. Great info here, thanks!

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