Daniel Flickinger

This article is about the audio engineer. For the Protestant bishop and missionary to Africa, see Daniel Kumler Flickinger.

Daniel N. Flickinger was an audio engineer in the late 1960s and 1970s, who designed and manufactured some of the era's most important music recording consoles. He designed recording consoles for Sly Stone,[1] Curtis Mayfield, Ike Turner's Bolic Sounds,[2] Johnny Cash, and Funkadelic, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Motown Records, Cinderella Records, and United Sound Systems among many others.

Flickinger revolutionized recorded music through the "sweepable EQ," an original equalization scheme. Many credit Flickinger with the first design of a working sweepable EQ, while others contend he was one of many who did important work in early EQ innovations. Either way, Flickinger's design of these EQ's would influence his own circuit design, and the work of others worldwide.

Flickinger innovations

Flickinger's work has since become highly esteemed among recording professionals; Steve Albini wrote "I will go to my deathbed claiming Flickinger consoles are the best sounding mixing desks ever made. Period." [5]

Recording studios using Flickinger consoles

References

  1. ↑ Tom Lanham (2005) Search For The Fabled Flickinger, Paste Magazine Issue 14
  2. ↑ Sutherland, Sam (18 March 1972). "Studio Track:". Billboard. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
  3. 1 2 Source: How Does It Sound Now?: Legendary Engineers and Vintage Gear. Gary Gottlieb Author. Pg 29.
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