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We are proud to tell you that we are the new owners of the historic 1969 Daniel Flickinger Recording Desk. 

The split console was hand built by the American audio engineer and was used at Paragon Recording Studios in Chicago to record hit records with the Ohio Players, Styx, and others.  Few consoles were built by Flickinger and even fewer are around today.  Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, Parliment, The Rolling Stones, Paul Simon, Bob Segar, and many other legendary artists made some their best recordings on these desks in the 70s. 

We are thrilled to say that now one of these historic recording consoles resides in Richmond, VA!

“Today, when engineers have unlimited tracks to work with, what a lot of them don’t get is that decisions do have to be made at some point. We had to figure out how to balance things then and there, and if something worked out fine it was, apparently, because we had an ear for it. Certainly, with all of those extra mics the sound was infinitely better controlled than it would have been without them, and we were always breaking new ground because no one had done what we were doing back then. Anything went, and while a lot of things didn’t work, a lot of things did. Of course, the equipment was primitive by today’s standards, but we pushed it, and doing that was a hell of a lot more fun, quite frankly, than having everything at your fingertips.”

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-Adrian