How It Was Recorded

Gear · console

Quad Eight Console (32 channels)

Recording console, 1960s onwards. Discrete op-amp channel modules with transformers and a passive inductor equaliser followed by make-up gain. Early desks were rebadged Electrodyne consoles; Quad Eight later built its own for film stages and music studios.

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Records it appears on · 1

  • Tainted Love

    Soft Cell · Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, 1981

    • Advision control room · Input chainReportedConsole that the producer and engineer sat behind in Advision Studio Two when the song was recorded.

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MixWave Quad Eight MM-310

preamp and EQ

Models Quad Eight's MM-310 preamp and three-band EQ module, made with Quad Eight; the source does not say this desk carried that module.

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