Quad Eight Coronado — Quad Eight Coronado in service at Rainshadow Recording, Port Townsend, WA
Quad Eight Coronado in service at Rainshadow Recording, Port Townsend, WA — Everett Moran — Rainshadow Recording, Port Townsend, WA
Quad Eight Coronado — Quad Eight Coronado — channel strips and meter bridge at Rainshadow Recording
🇺🇸 Quad Eight

Coronado

Late 1970s

Technical specs

LayoutIn-line
Groups24-bus
EQ3-band
AM-10 op amps Reichenbach transformers API 550A-style 3-band EQ Last of the Quad Eight / Electrodyne line

The Coronado was Quad Eight's late-1970s flagship — circa 1979, the largest and last of the Quad Eight / Electrodyne lineage, marketed under the line "For the Artist in Every Engineer." This one anchors the control room at Rainshadow Recording in Port Townsend, Washington, restored and modified by Arthur Sloatman in Nashville. It runs the AM-10 op amp and Reichenbach input and output transformers, with a detented three-band EQ close in design to the API 550A — a working Quad Eight decades after the company was absorbed into Mitsubishi.

Photo: Everett Moran — Rainshadow Recording, Port Townsend, WA

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Quad Eight Coronado — "For the Artist in Every Engineer" — build-it-yourself cutout — Recording 1979-08
Quad Eight Coronado — "For the Artist in Every Engineer" — build-it-yourself cutout — Recording 1979-08 (1979)

Studios

  • Rainshadow Recording, Port Townsend, WA