I just bought at auction from a radio station a mixer console. The
documentation calls it an Audio Products Mark (VI?). The price quote
on the original invoice was signed by Alfred Antlitz. The original
price in 1971 was $8,000. It has 14 Penny & Giles sliding faders, 4 VU
meters, and individual transformers above the mic plug ins. Audio
Products was located in Schaumburg Illinois from the address on the
invoice. Can anyone tell me anything about this unit...is it a
desireable unit today for collectors or restorers? Is Alfred Antlitz
related to the German Antlitz company which made compressors, etc?
Thanks.

Vito wrote:
I just bought at auction from a radio station a mixer console. The
documentation calls it an Audio Products Mark (VI?). The price quote
on the original invoice was signed by Alfred Antlitz. The original
price in 1971 was $8,000. It has 14 Penny & Giles sliding faders, 4 VU
meters, and individual transformers above the mic plug ins. Audio
Products was located in Schaumburg Illinois from the address on the
invoice. Can anyone tell me anything about this unit...is it a
desireable unit today for collectors or restorers? Is Alfred Antlitz
related to the German Antlitz company which made compressors, etc?
Thanks.

The problem is that around this time, everybody and his brother was
making consoles, and most consoles were custom-made or mostly-custom.
So you'll find lots of consoles from guys like Studio Z or Saturn or
Uranium, which may only have made two or three consoles total in the
lifetime of the business.

I have a Harris-Allied catalogue from 1972 which has a short paragraph
about them making various modules, but that's the only reference I find.

Is this thing designed as a live broadcast console or is it intended
as a master control console (ie. with stereo channels that have no
pans, no EQ, but cuing)?

Does it have the modules that fit into 9-pin tube sockets?
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

In 1971 Al Antlitz was chief engineer of WFMT, Chicago's fine arts
classical FM station. He built the consoles they used and also sold them
to other stations, including the one I worked at in Chicago.

At the time there was little else on the market that met WFMT's sonic
criteria.



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Vito wrote:
I just bought at auction from a radio station a mixer console. The
documentation calls it an Audio Products Mark (VI?). The price quote
on the original invoice was signed by Alfred Antlitz. The original
price in 1971 was $8,000. It has 14 Penny & Giles sliding faders, 4 VU
meters, and individual transformers above the mic plug ins. Audio
Products was located in Schaumburg Illinois from the address on the
invoice. Can anyone tell me anything about this unit...is it a
desireable unit today for collectors or restorers? Is Alfred Antlitz
related to the German Antlitz company which made compressors, etc?
Thanks.

The problem is that around this time, everybody and his brother was
making consoles, and most consoles were custom-made or mostly-custom.
So you'll find lots of consoles from guys like Studio Z or Saturn or
Uranium, which may only have made two or three consoles total in the
lifetime of the business.

I have a Harris-Allied catalogue from 1972 which has a short paragraph
about them making various modules, but that's the only reference I find.

Is this thing designed as a live broadcast console or is it intended
as a master control console (ie. with stereo channels that have no
pans, no EQ, but cuing)?

Does it have the modules that fit into 9-pin tube sockets?
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."