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recorder and a MCI prototype console.Although the Ampex recorder was quickly replaced in favor
of the new Mackie Hard Disk recorder with it's digital advantages the MCI console remains in use
today.This console is unique and historic in many ways.First of all,it and all the other MCI 400
series consoles produced employing the MCI 2001 opamps are the warmest,biggest,fattest
sounding consoles on the planet.They cut hundreds of hits in the seventies and eighties to prove
it.Some may say it's fatter because it has distortion in it,and i'm sure it does,it's doing the same
thing tubes do,distorts,only it's not perceived as distortion,it just makes things sound
huge.Second,the console that's at Mitchell Bros. was the very first console Dave Harrison built,he
then built one more that was to be the model for MCI to go into production with,the 400 series.The
console we have is also believed to be the very first inline console ever built,at least to go into
production.
Now for the really historical part.From it's birth as the child of wizard Dave Harrison it began it's
life on Nashville's Music Row at Buddy Killen's SoundShop Studio.It along with engineers like
Ernie Winfrey made a lot of big hits there.Probably the most notable one was when Buddy Killen
and Linda McCartney's dad got Paul McCartney to come to nashville for a couple of weeks and
record there with top nashville players like Chet Atkins.Wow! Chet and Paul cutting on this board
the same day ! Now that's a historic event.We've also got Chet Atkins JBL 4430 studio monitors he
used at his home studio and they still sound great.
Now all of this talk,history and name dropping don't mean anything unless this equipment is in use
by extremely talented artist,engineers and producers. Are you one of them? We think we are !
David Mitchell
Manager/Engineer