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Tag Archives: consoles
Loft Model 440 Console on eBay
Several years ago we ran a couple of pieces about LOFT AUDIO, a 1970′s era Connecticut Pro Audio manufacturer. LOFT founder Peter Nimirowski got in touch with us and provided some never-before seen factory photos and documentation. Click here to … Continue reading
Electrodyne circa 1969
Some random bits of Electrodyne kit that I came across… Above, their ACC-1204… looks pretty neat… anyone?
ADM Mixers and Consoles of the 1970s and 1980s
Above: ADM console constructed for NYC’s A+R Recording c. 1976 Nice set for y’all today, courtesy of reader T.F. T. sent over a large collection of ADM console images spanning the mid seventies into the 1980s. I know next to … Continue reading
Audio Mixing Consoles circa 1959
Langevin stereo console circa 1959 Today: from the “Audio Cyclopedia,” Howard Tremaine, 1959: a quick visual survey of professional mixing consoles in service in 1959. A PS Dot Com reader turned me on to the “Audio Cycolopedia”; many copies of … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Here’s those EQs and Compressors you asked for. Now go F’ yrself.
Above: 12×3 Audiofax mixing desk circa 1961. I was reading a 1961 AES journal when I came across this piece by Phillip Erhorn of Audiofax associates in which he details “New trends in stereo recording consoles.” Erhorn will let you … Continue reading