[BC] Irv Joel board

[Barry Mishkind]

We had one of those here in Tucson.... it saved me from having
to build a console by myself (they *were* using an audimax with
four small DPDT switches to feed the tapes and/or carts to the
audimax.  NOT pretty). I had the P&G faders and was ready...

Oddly, it was never used by a live announcer.  It was set for
the FM operator to do the sequencing and that was about it
until well after I left the station.

I do remember that Irv was quite happy with what I was
doing with the audio chain and processing.  There were almost
no "Do this!" notes ... at least as they affected me.

At 05:17 PM 2/3/2010, Margaret Bryant wrote:
>I had one of these at KQXT in San Antonio. Awful to work on.
>Shortly after Group W purchased it we moved the station into a new
>building. I couldn't wait to install a "regular broadcast" audio console.
>
>Margaret
>
> >Many of Jim's proclamations were smoke and mirrors. The most
> >interesting result was Irv Joel's "invention" of the Easy Listening
> >console. Even WJIB (FM), Boston got suckered in. They replaced a
> >great Langevin console (minus the Lumitens - optical pots that
> >required constant maintenance - blackened bulbs) with this klutzy
> >black box that took most control away from the operator.