Quantum mixing console

Model #: QM-8-8EX

This shows my partly-completed rework of the patch bay (I have the original patch bay, but there's no documentation for it and it uses patch cables with nonstandard plugs -- approx. 3/16" diameter). The gouges in the arm-rest are from Bubba's late german shepherd Penelope.

Origin

Dan Dudley says he confirmed with one of the members of R.E.M. (I think it was Pete Buck, but I'm not sure) who used to hang out in some well-known bar in Athens that this was in fact the same mixing console used at Mitch's Drive-In to do the original recording of "Radio Free Europe" and one or two other songs. That recording was used on R.E.M.'s original cassette release but not on the Murmur album. It was, however, re-released on the Eponymous album, and apparently the band liked it better than the more "professional" version on Murmur.

• original cassette release
• Eponymous version: the video title implies this is the Hib-Tone single, but is actually the version from Eponymous which (according to notes on the above YouTube post) was actually Easter's proposed remix for the single -- which everyone liked except Hibbert (owner of Hib-Tone), who pulled rank and used his mix for the single.

Status

This is currently sitting on one end, off the floor, in the Hypertwin Basement, because there's absolutely no way I have room to set it up anywhere.