[ToneLux]

One thing all those console had in common was simplicity. When you design with discrete amps, you can't buffer everything, so you have to think hard.

Most of them had (amp count):

1) mic pre

1) input amp, serving as the pre fader amp too, sometimes it was the mic pre in a different mode

2) EQ, maybe had some discrete buffers, but for the most part, 2 amps

1) post fader amp that drove the panner and the sends and the busses and the solo.

Then

1) summing amp feeding the master fader

1) Booster amp, feeding the outside world.

Then the pressing plant, then the record store and your home.

6 or 7 amplifiers. I think today, the only console with that count is the API stuff. Everyone else has tons of ICs.

This is why all the Ouside the Box summing stations sound so good. Nolo-Buncho-Amplifcacio

It makes me feel so warm... I miss the smell of Ampex 456 in the control room....