From Bob...

"I just got my copy of Tape Op today and the article on the console you built was really great to read. I'm slowly teaching myself electronics over the years and have fantasies of the owning my own room and building a console myself to work on. Reading about the design/thought process timeline and how long that took was great for me. The idea of designing and then building a console is a pretty damn big job, but a lot of it can be broken down into smaller elements over a longer period of time. This way of looking at it is inspiring to me to start putting some energy into investigating and evaluating the smaller building blocks of a big project like this."

Thanks Bob... It is true that breaking it down into small steps makes it all possible. The truth is that it is a very simple circuit, over and over. 

"I'm curious about the equalizer circuit you've got in the console. Did you build the whole modules (design the PCB and layout, etc) yourself or are they original circuit boards fitted into your chassis and panels?"

The EQs are 'removed from service' Langevin 251As. I have collected them over the years. I designed the EQ panel to hold the old modules. These EQs are from a Western Electric design from the 1940's, I think.

The pan design reminds me of the Electrodyne console they have at Dub Narcotic here in Oly, there's hard buss assigns for each channel, and you can also assign to either or both of two busses with pan knobs on them.

I've seen some wacky pan circuits out there. I tried to keep  it as clean (aesthetics and circuitry) as possible.

Cheers,  Dan