On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:54:21 +0200, "Iain Churches"
wrote:


"Eiron" wrote in message
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Obituary of Roy Wallace, designer of the Decca tree:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../10/db1002.xml

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Eiron.


Alas, poor Wallace. I knew him well.

But the tree is far from chopped down, the microphone
format which Roy pioneered is still widely used
with spectacular results.

He was also the designer of the Decca modular location
recording consoles, which could be linked together to give as
many input and output channels as the project demanded.
The system was known as STORM (STereo OR Mono)


Iain


It is strange that it has survived essentially unchanged, since he
didn't so much design it as put together something he thought might
work ok. I suspect that if he had by chance used a different set of
dimensions, we would still be pedantic about having those exactly
right too.

d

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