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UPDATED: Compressor Roundup c. 1963

Compressors_1963_1Today on PS dot come: a short but v v informative piece from BROADCAST ENGINEERING , July 1963, which gives specs for nearly all of the broadcast compressors that were available that year.  Models covered include: Collins 26J Auto-level, Collins 356E, Fairchild 666A, 666, and 663; Gates M-5167 Sta-Level, GE BA-9 Uni-levele, ITA AGC-1A, Langevin AM-5301 Leveline, Quindar QCA-2, and the RCA BA-25A

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UPDATE: T. Fine was so kind as to provide the entire 3-part article as a compact PDF.  click here to download it: BrdctEngnrgAudioLeveling_1963

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Early Solid-State Gates Audio Mixers

Gates_remote_ampsAbove: GATES Attache 70, Dynamote 70, Courier 70, and Unimote 70 solid-state remote amplifiers circa 1965.  I somehow ended up with a box of those side-reading VU meters; how the hell do you cut panel holes for those things?  Useless.

Gates_SolidStatesmenGates SolidStatemen studio broadcast boards circa 1964.  The Executive, Diplomat, President, and Ambassador.  Has anyone had any luck parting these out and re-purposing the mic preamps?  Anything worth exploring there?  There’s one of these things available locally for a song and I feel bad about just hacking it up; is it even worth the time?  Seems like there are an awful lot of these things out there and nobody wants ’em.  WHICH IS precisely the sentiment that people had towards all that ‘vintage tube stuff’ when i was a kid… hence my hesitation…

Gates_ad_1965Harris-Intertype Gates.  Keeping America On-Air.  (I just made that up).  OK folks, besides the Sta-Level…  what else is still worth using in the world o’Gates?     Drop us a line….