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Originally Posted by orphanaudio  The first Quad Eight consoles were supposedly made with Electrodyne modules that had a "Q" engraved above the Electrodyne "E". Robert Bud hand built quite a few audio mixers when he ran QE as a small consulting and custom film equipment design firm, some years before the company began officially building custom film dubbing consoles.
I know of nothing that survived from these small custom mixers, so this claim will be hard to prove. The Electrodyne opamps, internal levels and gain staging were very different from what QE built in their first full size consoles, although cosmetically and functionally they were very close to Electrodyne. |
Hi Ken,
Not so hard to prove. I have modules from 3 different consoles (two MM61's being from the Hollywood Bowl console) branded Q8 that have all Electrodyne components inside! Two of my friend also have many of these modules from the Hollywood Bowl console as well. If you open up some of the MM71 or MM61 modules you will see Edyne transformers and cards. Some will have edyne A1000 or A2000 op amps and some have the Q8 AM3 op amps.
Besides when I wrote the article, Don King was working for Edyne at the time this was all going on and he's the one who told me of the "incident" that happened.
I should send you a copy of the fine CD that Don gave me detailing the history of these companies. In fact if it wasn't over an hour long I'd post it on my sight... come to think of it I might just do that anyway...
It begins..."Virginia, there were two Electrodynes, the first one...
A short aside, one year in the late 70's we were playing a Club in upstate NY called the Hullablew... in walks the Dixie Dregs to celebrate Steve Morse's birthday, needless to say we were up till 6AM parting the night away, it was a scene out of a rock and roll movie as the owner of the club had a pet tiger that roamed the room, there were half naked girls (and some totally), there was so much dope smoked and so much blow that night, it was crazy... I'm surprised I can actually remember it. It certainly was a different time then!