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Originally Posted by RoundBadge "British sound?"....To my knowledge, API is and always was an american made console..
..I think Queen used a Trident A range[that is indeed british] on a lot of stuff |
You've misunderstood me... API is, of course, American.
What I meant is that there would be a lot of people consider Bohemian Rhapsody to be quintessially 'British', whereas it was actually recorded on an API desk.
I've worked on the API desk in question at Rockfield (....or should I say the channels that they kept from it, the main desk is now a Neve VR Legend) and recorded
the piano too.
It may well have been mixed on a Trident, certainly tracked on an API though.
I heard a story that Mike Hedges got the Mk4 when he intercepted Abbey Road techies about to put it in a skip round the back of the studio...
There is another Abbey Road/Pink Floyd Neve desk living in Great Linford Manor Studios in pieces (now closed because the owner has become a football chairman)...