Vintage Mixing Consoles

If you have any documentation on any of the mixing consoles listed below (or even rare/unlisted consoles), please fill out our Vintage Material Submission Form so that I can add them to this site! You will be listed on our contributors page if you would like. There are many of these brands that have been forgotten over the years, and it is our hopes to preserve some of their history here at the Vintage Audio Portal. Please feel free to contribute ANYTHING regarding vintage audio you may have; it could even be a story, old pictures, technical drawings...whatever!

2005AD, Inc

3rd generation

abe

A.C. Electronic Services

ace AUDIO ENGINEERING

Acousta

adt-audio

ADM

alice soundtech (Stancoil Ltd.)

Allen & Heath

ALL SOUNDS

altair

altec / altec lansing

Altec mixing console at Land Studios - Pictures contributed by S. Hill.

amek

Ampex

Ampro

AMR

ARIES

Ashly

AUDIO DEVELOPMENTS

audio processing systems, inc (apsi)

Auditronics

Audix

API / automated processes, inc.

argentini

Don't know much about this one except to say that it was produced in Italy primarily for broadcast.

Aries

ARP

audek

Breathtaking!

audio arts / wheatstone

Audio Designs

audio developments

Audio Kinetics

auditronics

audix

BBC

Reader Submission from Nick J. - "BBC designed DK4/19 desk. One of many that were in service for the BBC World Service in Bush House until their move to New Broadcasting House in 2012."

backstage

BERLANT

binson

Notice the built-in Binson Echorec to the right!

boss

braun

Braun 12-4 Tube Console

What a beauty!

bushnell

cad

cadac

calrec

canary

carvin

centaur systems

cetec

chilton

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Pictured below, is a reader submission from Christoph F. He states:
"This Chilton console was designed as a Broadcast console, and therefore has incredible ergonomics - the channels are spread very far apart, and it is therefore very nice to twist knobs & etc. The Mic-Preamps are great due to the [included] transformers, and you can drive them quite nicely (since the direct outs are post fader). The EQ is nice, and I use it for enhancing signals going into the DAW."

He even provided a manual for his CM2! Awesome!!!

clg

Collins

Concord

cooper

crest

Ian S. submitted to us this picture of a Crest.

CRS

C|T|h

custom Builds

A Custom Quad used for Pink Floyd. Notice the transformer on the ground and the tape echo on the table.

d&r

datamix

dda

DEMEDIO

DOD

Here is a submission from Larry V. He states that this console is still in use today!

dr

decca

dhd

DIY

If you have any information about these consoles, please pipe in! Whoever made these - mad respect!

Found out later these consoles are made by "ekadek"

dna

dymaxion

dynamix

Here we have a reader's submission from R. Baker. This is a cool Dynamix 24/8/2 from the early 80's:

dynacord

The Dynacord Eminent

eab

Earthtone

east german

echolette

EELA

electrodyne

This one was sent in my W. Wilson. He writes, "This is one of two highly custom mix down consoles I was involved in selling and manufacturing for Motown. The competition was fierce between us and QuadEight. The Electrodynes had the first VCA's ever used in audio consoles, Hall effect devices. We did it, QE couldn't."

ELECTRO-HARMONIX

ELECTROSONIC

ELEK-TREK

El-Tech

emi

Be Still My Heart!

emt

euphonics

fairchild

fairlight

faylon

fbt electronica

Federal

fender

flickinger

focusrite

FOSTEX

funkstunde pult

gately

Gates

The Studioette

Ha! I love the screen door material on the top of this unit!

What a perfect example of a Gates console

This is a reader submission from Steve L. I love how this vintage Gates is the centerpiece of a much more modern project studio space. Super Cool!

" I bought it on Fleabay out of Portland, Oregon. I took it to the world famous engineer Bob Mayben in Gadsden, Alabama who installed a Marti power supply and some modern electronics and converted it to stereo. I use it in my Dallas studio for friends to do voice over work. All items hooked up to it fire from the board. Two AirCorp 500 PH mic processors and two Electro Voice RE 20 mics are used; exactly the same as we used at ABC Radio Satellite Music Networks in Dallas where I jocked for 13 years. Two Dell XPS III's with Samplitude multitrack software for production and Station Playlist is used for streaming."

This is another contribution by S. Hill. He writes, "My friend Bob Ketchum DJ'in at KWHN when he was barely twenty years old. The console is a Gates Executive from the early 1960's. Bob later opened his own recording studio. He was the drummer on Freddy Fenders Gold seller, Wasted Days and Wasted Nights."

GELF

geloso

Gibson

gothenburg

gml

Grammaphon

Gray

While not considered a traditional mixing console, this was too good not to include.

hagstrom

harris

harrison

Head Sound

heil

helios

h||H

hi pro

hill

HM electronics (HME)

ibanez

impulse

INDUSTRIAL TAPE APPLICATIONS (ita)

Inkel

intersound

ITAM

kelsey

kustom

lafont

LAMB

lang

langevin

"Langevin became a secondary supplier to Western Electric during WWII (hence why the font is the same for both companies at that time). Most people didn't know this. The government required any manufacture supplying goods to the war effort to have a secondary supplier. Carl Langevin went to the head of W.E. and asked to be their secondary supplier since they were winding transformers for them at that time. This was the actual start of Langevin.
Also at one point Electrodyne's parent company, MCA Technologies, acquired Langevin for a period of time when they were making their tube equipment, hence why you have "cross pollinated" parts in these modules. I have 201-A's that are branded both with the E from Electrodyne and the L from Langevin, some of the Electrodyne transformers are in Langevin branded modules and vise versa." - Larry DeVivo

Kearneys Mixer by Zack Dagoba on Scribd

lawo

loft

Lombardi

I like the dual layer surface of this console. Unique!

Longden

Macinnes Electronic

Magnasync

maihak

The purdiest gurl at the dance!

malcolm hill

marconi

Here is a reader submission from Deri H. - "Marconi audio console installed in Outside Broadcast Van CHTV3 - New Zealand. Van was in use from 1963 to 1974 when NZ bought colour vans for the Christchurch Commonwealth Games."

MATAMP

maze

mccurdy

Someone sent this to me...it appears as if it's a McCurdy from Studio Frisson?

mci

A closeup of the MCI JH528B

McMartin

midas

mitec

mitsubishi

M-Jay Electronics, LTD.

MM

Modular Audio Products

MS-Audiotron

mta

Multi-Track

Musimatic

NAGRA

NEDERLANDSE RADIO

N.E.I.

neotek

neptune

neumann

neve

Northern Electric

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olive

opamp labs

Optronics

orange

otari

pa:ce / mm

PARTRIDGE

peavey

philips

platinum

plus xxx

Presto

pulsar labs, inc.

pye

quad / eight electronics

This gorgeous example of a Quad/Eight console is a reader submission from D.J. What a Beauty! Check out the spacious layout and the ultra cool patchbay to the left with matching cabinets!