Golden Sound Standel Vintage Tube Console, History?

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Hello GDIY

We have reached out to the seller regarding a pair of these Tube Consoles and are working on the funding part now.
We are seeking out more unusual designs to keep things fresh.

https://reverb.com/item/30648537-golden-sound-pa7-console-de-mixage-a-lampe-tube-mixer-2

We found the Quote below along with the image of the Golden Sound Standel. The Branding is very similar to the recently revived and much loved Standel Amplification.
Golden Sound was made in Paris, manufatured at what seems to be a Educational entity of some sort.

Any info is helpful :)

"I am selling one of my 4 Consoles preamp to Lamps Golden Sound PA7 of 1968 All is staged with lamps (ECC83) the 7 preamp the 2 outputs the Reverb circuit has spring Modified in XLR by input and line 6,35 the number 7 direct Out post fader by section ideal for attacking a sound card and benefit from 7 TRUE analog circuits with a vintage tube Everything is original except the chemicals (capacitors) and the tubes .... the potentiometers as often at the time was designed to last for proof 45 years later no crash on any !!!!! unimaginable today except in the very Top of the range Its powerful and fat masterful reverb with spring adjustable by slice and direct output of the reverb to independently process the reverberated signal in your beautiful 2-band EQ software !! we open it up is soft and musical it brightens enlarged while masterfully smooth !!!!!! We can also use it as a 7/2 mixer (but mono signal despite the 2 master outputs no PAN) Golden Sound was imagined and designed by Benedetti in the 60s everything was hand made point by point in its small workshops, science fiction in 2014 or so it will be overpriced ... I am fortunate to have 4 and a PA12 (may also be for sale) price justified by the state, modifications adapted in the 21st century and again it does not work like EMI API etc ..... 950 euros or 135 euros preamp with EQ and spring reverb !!! who says better ... For comparison I have a UA 610 and 710 except the flexibility of the UA PA7 are much more colorful,"

 

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matriachamplification said:
Golden Sound was made in Paris, manufatured at what seems to be a Educational entity of some sort.
Actually the "Institut d'Electronique musicale" was a shop, using a fancy name, inspired by "institut de beauté" (beauty parlor). No education involved.
Golden Sound mixers were the first affordable live mixers in France. they were used by all the major artists of the day.
 
abbey road d enfer said:
Actually the "Institut d'Electronique musicale" was a shop, using a fancy name, inspired by "institut de beauté" (beauty parlor). No education involved.
Golden Sound mixers were the first affordable live mixers in France. they were used by all the major artists of the day.

Thanks for clarifying. They are great looking minimal mixers.
 

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