Quad 8 .... whats the skinny?

[Josh Hoisington]

Try This... Electrodyne Mixer used by Beach Boys

Yeah, I've seen that. That's not the Beach Boys' console that was in their home studio. Neat though!

Thanks for pointing me to that article as well. I'm still interested if it's true that that Beach Boys system was responsible for bringing Quad-8 from a 2 man operation to 65 people, and putting it on the map as an entity.

[Football]

Originally Posted by Silvertone

Try This... Electrodyne Mixer used by Beach Boys

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

best,
Larry

2,000,000 for the board. I'll take it!!!

[Silvertone]

Originally Posted by Josh Hoisington

Yeah, I've seen that. That's not the Beach Boys' console that was in their home studio. Neat though!

Thanks for pointing me to that article as well. I'm still interested if it's true that that Beach Boys system was responsible for bringing Quad-8 from a 2 man operation to 65 people, and putting it on the map as an entity.

Hi Josh,

You can call David Geren over at Cinemag (he was one of the last employees left at Q8 when Mitsubishi bought them out) to find out the answer. Or next time I talk to him I'll ask.

I doubt it was just the beach boys as Bud was taking orders for years and having Edyne build them, he would just re-brand them basically in the early days. Warner Bros, Bearsville, Wally Heiders, Hollywood Bowl, etc... and a bunch of others had Q8 consoles at the time as well.

[walth]

LA24 line amps are pretty cool too.

[axisdreamer]

I have a pair of q8 la24 line amps from Neil Youngs console that I want to rack into mic pres.I bet they will sound nice when done!!Perhaps I'll check with Ken and see if he has any kits to rack them. Another idea was to use these line amps in my Auditronics console as the main outputs.Bet that would make the console sound even better than it already does!!!

[walth]

Originally Posted by Bob Olhsson

Quad-Eight was the second high-end recording console manufacturer in the United States that was started by some of the engineers from Electrodyne which had been the first. After several years as the leading console manufacturer, API took over most of their market because we all LOVED the 550 equalizer which was the first really first class console equalizer.

Deane Jensen left Quad-Eight to manufacture upgrade opamps and transformers for API consoles because many people considered the basic API signal path to be a significant step down from Quad-Eight.

cool historical info