[Silvertone]

Originally Posted by Josh Hoisington

I'm bumping this,

I developed a bit of an email relationship with Stephen Desper, who was the Beach Boys' staff engineer for a few years, late 60s-early 70s, and we talked a bit about the Beach Boys console that he helped design with Bud Bennett.

Here's what he said about it (and this was posted publically, so it's not like I'm sharing personal correspondence.):

"The consoles were built by Quad-8 (owned by Bud Bennet) but based on designs by Electrodyne (John Hall, engineer). The consoles were electrodyne modules re-worked by Quad-8 to meet my deadline. I needed all this equipment built within a month time-frame. I went from one console builder to another, but none could meet my time-table. Only Bud Bennet said “yes” to all my demands and he qot the contract. Under that contract, Quad-8 went from a two-person operation to a 65 person payroll. It put Quad-8 on the map and the company when on to build many fine consoles for motion picture studios and recording studios."

I thought that might contribute to this discussion, even though it was over...

There's also an AES journal about this system by Desper and Bennett, that is a nice overview.

Anybody know anything more about this? What would the input modules have been? This was '69.

Try This... Electrodyne Mixer used by Beach Boys

or this... Cinemag Audio Transformers - The History of Electrodyne Quad-Eight and Sphere

best,
Larry