[BC] Gates early solid state consoles

[Dana Puopolo]

It was passive mixing with step attenuators and yes, by upgrading the program
and microphone amps you wound up with a GREAT sounding console.
FYI...Step attenuators are now universally used in very high end (5K $+)audio
preamps (made with metal film low noise resistors). Why? Because they
universally sound better then pots.

-D


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Received: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:16:30 AM EDT
From: Chuck Leavens <chuck at wduq.org>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: RE: [BC] XT and RCF 1

 >The Executive was a full stereo with an additional (L+R)
 >mono output. In 1967 we had one in the demo room at
 >Gates/ATC Bloomington. Good board for the day, but no
 >headroom.

But was the console not passive with the exception of the Mike
Preamps and the Output Amps? I often thought that changing those out
one could have a very transparent console to the audio. No?

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