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Flickinger “The Association” Console (Vintage)

Flickinger “The Association” Console (Vintage)

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Daniel Flickinger “The Association” Console

Custom built for the Association in the late 60s, this Flickinger console is one of a kind, and considering Daniel Flickinger only made roughly 22 consoles makes it a super rarity. Flickinger also made custom consoles for Sly Stone, Ike Turner (2), George Clinton, Paragon Studios, and Muscle Shoals, among others. They were quite pricey in their day, averaging between $85,000 and $200,000! That’s in 1970’s money, so they were no joke!

This console was originally designed as The Association’s live board. Some time in the 70s it was planted in a studio that they had. Producer/engineer/bassist David Vaught, http://www.studioexpresso.com/profiles/DavidVaught.htm, who was playing bass with and recording them at the time, would run the studio. When this arrangement ended, David bought the console and moved it into his studio, Camp David, where it stayed for roughly 35 years. Vaught made countless records on this console including Primitive Radio Gods ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJxFAoiWSY ), Toad The Wet Sprocket -Bread And Circus, Lone Justice – This World Is Not My Home, Jon Wayne – Texas Funeral, The Counting Crows – Recovering The Satellites, and Peter Case – Sings Like Hell.

Vaught passed on in 2013, and the Flickinger was kept in storage until 2017

There are a total of three sub master sections with a sub fader on each, for a total of nine mix submasters that can be configured into five main outputs, with patch points for all of these that have four Langevin equalizers. There are reverb and echo sends and returns for each sub group which allows six different effects to be used in mixdown mode. There are two cue mixes that have high and low-pass filters on them. The console is currently set up to provide sixteen inputs to recorder and four channels to monitor the DAW or monitor section, with six group outputs still available for combining. 16 channel line outputs can be expanded to the full 20 with the addition of another four channels of distribution amplifiers. The wiring has already been done. This allows the operator to apply fader and eq directly.

The channel buss assignment is done internally and can be reconfigured if necessary. The first eight channels are on group one, the next six are group two and the final six are group three. The Association Flickinger console operates on +- 24 volt power rails. Most modern consoles run on +- 18 volts. This gives the console a full +24 db headroom. All faders are Langevin Slide Wire type. They are very serviceable and the console comes with three spares. The console uses the Flickinger 535-2 amplifier cards located in the the meter bridge cabinets. All active electronics are in the meter cabinets. The control surfaces are all passive controls. The console has 20 channels of the very sought after Flickinger equalizers and preamps.

Modular construction so the whole system can be transported in a minivan or Volvo wagon.

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These records were recorded on the Flickinger console:

Primitive Radio Gods-Rocket-White Hot-Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth
Toad The Wet Sprocket-Bread and Circus
Lone Justice-This World is Not My Home
Jon Wayne-Texas Funeral
Counting Crows-Recovering the Satellites”
Peter Case-Sings Like Hell

Among many others…