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MCI JH542B

Large-format recording console, 1975 onwards. Solid-state in-line desk; the first from any maker to fit VCA grouping, so one fader could control several channels. The house desk at Criteria in Miami and Atlantic in New York.

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Records it appears on · 1

Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
Culture Club · Kissing to Be Clever, 1982
- Lead vocal · Input chainReportedStudio console at Red Bus; its microphone preamp took the lead vocal from the U 87.

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Models the channel strip of a custom MCI desk at Criteria Studios from the same years; it is the same maker's sound but not a JH-500.

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