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BGW Systems [message #306198 is a reply to message #303898 ]

Tue, 25 March 2008 18:48

Michael 'Bink' Knowles
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Michael 'Bink' Knowles wrote on Tue, 18 March 2008 16:47

...Hopefully Abe will have something on Brian G. Wachner of BGW. I read on DIYAudio that Wachner was the kind of patriotic guy who would only design with parts made within his country (USA). He'd be pretty stymied trying to sustain that commitment today...

I didn't have enough on Wachner to write a good bio but there's a larger amount of reference material out there to get a fair BGW Systems article going. Here's the BGW page as it stands so far:

BGW Systems (page on Wikipedia)

Thanks go out to Milt Hathaway for sharing some good anecdotal material. You're alright, man. Cool

Cool

PLEASE, somebody send me a nice and sharp straight-on photo of an old BGW logo as painted on the chassis of an amplifier or something. Or upload the photo yourself and put it in the article. I'd like to have the old, familiar logo represented on this page as well as the flashy new corporate one. Actually, any pictures or scans of BGW stuff will add value.

Of course, everybody should feel free to get in there and change the article wherever they see room for new facts or fact corrections.

-Bink (ratcheting this thing along between gigs and other projects)

[Updated on: Tue, 25 March 2008 18:51]

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Re: BGW Systems [message #306388 is a reply to message #306198 ]

Wed, 26 March 2008 06:54

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Michael 'Bink' Knowles wrote on Tue, 25 March 2008 18:48

PLEASE, somebody send me a nice and sharp straight-on photo of an old BGW logo as painted on the chassis of an amplifier or something. Or upload the photo yourself and put it in the article. I'd like to have the old, familiar logo represented on this page as well as the flashy new corporate one. Actually, any pictures or scans of BGW stuff will add value.

I've got some older brochures, including one with a nice picture of the older "original" line-up (85, 250, 750, etc.). I just haven't had the time to get one of my three #$*(& scanners to work. Now that I've gotten the Gig From Hell behind me, I'll see what I can do.

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FitzCo Sound, Inc.
Midland, TX
http://www.fitzcosound.com

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Re: Historical audio engineers [message #306633 is a reply to message #304711 ]

Wed, 26 March 2008 20:04

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Scott,

The show was Sha-Na-Na at the State Fairgrounds.

Sorry for misspelling Stanal sound, guess the old Standel (could also be misspelled) from that era partially swamped the memory banks.

The Stanley Screamers were good stuff!

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Re: Historical audio engineers [message #306822 is a reply to message #306633 ]

Thu, 27 March 2008 10:55

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Art Welter wrote on Wed, 26 March 2008 20:04

Scott,

The show was Sha-Na-Na at the State Fairgrounds.

Sorry for misspelling Stanal sound, guess the old Standel (could also be misspelled) from that era partially swamped the memory banks.

The Stanley Screamers were good stuff!

No biggie Art, It could go either way. I can't remember if there was a story behind the al in the name or not. When you do a search you also get a lot of hits on German websites. At first I though maybe stanal meant sound but I believe it is "stand" or "stood". Stan grew up in Holdrege where I spend a lot of time and if you go to McDonalds the house is just down the block.

I can remember of Sha-Na-Na being in Lincoln at the State Fair but I can't remember if it would have been the old open air aauditorium or the new Devaney Center. (UNL Arena) The Devaney Center opened in 1976 so hopefully you didn't have to deal with the accoustics and raked stage of the open air auditorium. Laughing

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Re: Historical audio engineers [message #306905 is a reply to message #306822 ]

Thu, 27 March 2008 14:17

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Scott,

Just looked in my August 1978 calendar and found that the gig I was thinking of must have been the Columbus Ohio state fair, August 17, 1978, 4:30 and 8:30 show.

The Stanal equipment probably was stenciled Kearney, Nebraska, or someone told us the company was from Kearney, and rolling out of the Dodge Travco we used as the crew bus, that’s what stuck in my memory of the day.

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Re: Historical audio engineers [message #307141 is a reply to message #306905 ]

Fri, 28 March 2008 00:18

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Wow!!! That's something to have your info from back in the 70's. Must be interesting to go back and look up old times.

Scott Raymond index.php/fa/10060/0/

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Re: Historical audio engineers [message #308197 is a reply to message #307141 ]

Mon, 31 March 2008 17:07

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Lets not forget master acoustician Russell Johnson from Artec.
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Re: BGW Systems [message #310256 is a reply to message #306198 ]

Mon, 07 April 2008 23:00

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Found this.. from a 750a

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edits: for general sloppiness

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I can say with some certainty that this was an activity quite unknown in Iowa!

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Universal Audio, UREI and Teletronix [message #314828 is a reply to message #301768 ]

Mon, 21 April 2008 16:40

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/UREI.png/180px-UREI.png

I recently added an entry for Universal Audio on Wikipedia. Before I got around to editing it, there was an album by The Delgados squatting there. Rolling Eyes

Rolling Eyes

I don't know a ton about Universal Audio, UREI and Teletronix and I bet I got a couple of things wrong as well as failing to include important bits.

I certainly didn't give the modern second generation re-introduction of Universal Audio enough ink. I don't know them very well. They deserve a more fully realized treatment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Audio

Help me out here.

-Bink

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Re: Universal Audio, UREI and Teletronix [message #314861 is a reply to message #314828 ]

Mon, 21 April 2008 18:11

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thank you once again...

JR

https://www.resotune.com/

"A bus in a console is spelled with one 's', but you can buss your girlfriend while riding in a bus."

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Re: Historical audio engineers [message #315135 is a reply to message #301768 ]

Tue, 22 April 2008 12:43

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Don't forget:

Dr. Amar Bose
Dr. F. Alton Everest
Dr. Eugene Patronis, Jr.
Dr. Robert (Bob)Carver
Mr. Mahlon D. Burkhard
Thomas Edison
William Sabine
Leo Beranek
Craig Anderton
Harry Olson
Richard Heyser

Be prepared, you'll need it!

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Re: Historical audio engineers [message #315221 is a reply to message #315135 ]

Tue, 22 April 2008 17:15

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Charlie Hammer wrote on Tue, 22 April 2008 10:43

Don't forget:

Dr. Amar Bose
Dr. F. Alton Everest
Dr. Eugene Patronis, Jr.
Dr. Robert (Bob)Carver
Mr. Mahlon D. Burkhard
Thomas Edison
William Sabine
Leo Beranek
Craig Anderton
Harry Olson
Richard Heyser

Wiki Got Bose. Wiki Got Beranek, Carver, Edison, Sabine.

Olson has only a couple of lines of text. Sad

Sad

-Bink

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Re: Historical audio engineers [message #315267 is a reply to message #315221 ]

Tue, 22 April 2008 18:55

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Yeh,
Thanks Bink
I read only your first posting, I'm killing time (between Projects) and have been reading a lot of posts but, my failure to catch-up ... has caught up it seems.

Be prepared, you'll need it!

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Re: Historical audio engineers [message #315277 is a reply to message #315267 ]

Tue, 22 April 2008 19:24

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Charlie Hammer wrote on Tue, 22 April 2008 16:55

Yeh,
Thanks Bink
I read only your first posting, I'm killing time (between Projects) and have been reading a lot of posts but, my failure to catch-up ... has caught up it seems.

http://www.sheltonbrothers.com/images/beers/Bink_Blond.jpg

No sweat. Have a brew while you peruse. Cool

Cool

The past hour somebody using an anonymous IP address from the Costa Mesa area has been greatly expanding the QSC page. Other manufacturing folks could take a tip from that. Very Happy

Very Happy

-Bink

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Re: Historical audio engineers [message #315522 is a reply to message #315277 ]

Wed, 23 April 2008 12:27

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Michael 'Bink' Knowles wrote on Tue, 22 April 2008 17:24

The past hour somebody using an anonymous IP address from the Costa Mesa area has been greatly expanding the QSC page. Other manufacturing folks could take a tip from that. Very Happy

Very Happy

-Bink

Crap, I thought I was logged in when I added that stuff.

Bob Lee
Applications Engineer, Technical Services Group,
QSC Audio
VP Western Region US/Canada,
Audio Engineering Society

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Re: Historical audio engineers [message #324900 is a reply to message #315522 ]

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:50

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I am having a luncheon at my house this summer with all the production company owners that can "qualify for the Denny's senior menu" and have my son video tape their history of providing production in the Northwest.

We have already lost so much history with owners either very ill or passing. I want to get their road stories in a form that those that follow us can know where they came.

It should be a very fun lunch as most of the owners are over 60 and little by little are retiring or going to desk jobs.

Play it safe out there over Memorial Day weekend. Bonnie

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