- Cadac
Cadac Electronics plc are the manufacturer of
sound mixing desks for live music productions, theatres, recording and broadcast. Cadac desks presently are most famous for large scale musicals such as "Phantom of the Opera" (from 1984 till 2008), "The Lion King", "Mamma Mia! " and "We Will Rock You" but historically from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s were installed in famous recording studios around the world including Lansdowne Studios,Manor Studios ,Wessex Studios , Scorpio Studios andGeorge Harrison 's Friar Park Studio. Clive Green is still the major shareholder having started the company in 1968.History
In 1967 Clive started working with Adrian Kerridge at London's Lansdowne studios, working on replacing all the valve parts for an old
EMI desk with solid state technology and modifying the desk for8 track recording.
In 1968 Terry Brown (a sound engineer at Lansdowne and Olympic) was asked by Barry Morgan and Monty Bason to set up the new Morgan studios. He asks to buy the designs for the new desk Clive and Adrian have been working on. Clive suggests that he builds the desk for Terry, and gets together with Adrian, David Bott an engineer from "TVT", and Charles Billet of Audix (who made the frames for the desks) so Clive, Adrian, David And Charles ... CADAC is born. The first desk is delivered to Morgan, then many more in the years to come, as this is the beginning of a long relationship between Cadac and Morgan. These are 8 track split console designs with no automation and transformer balanced inputs and outputs.External links
* [http://www.cadac-sound.com/ Cadac Electronics home page]
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