Midas
PR System — Maintaining a Standard
Midas Audio Systems Ltd was founded in London in 1970, originally building mixing consoles for the touring concert sound industry. Their PR System modular architecture — high-quality signal processing in compact, rugged frames of innovative modular design — became the choice of professional touring engineers worldwide.
By the late 1970s, over 350 Midas consoles had been delivered into mobile recording, broadcast, and concert use. Their 30-into-6+24 Sound Recording Console was installed at Eurosound Studios of Holland for no-compromise mobile recording of classical music — Eurosound's third Midas installation, illustrating the trust serious European recording operations placed in the brand.
Through the 1980s and 1990s Midas evolved into the live-sound flagship — the XL3 (1991) and XL4 (1999) became the standard for arena and stadium touring, alongside Klark Teknik signal processing. The brand was later acquired by Music Group (Behringer's parent company) in 2009, but the Midas Heritage and Pro series consoles continue to carry the original engineering philosophy.
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Notable Consoles
PMS 10
1971 – mid-1970s- Channels
- 10
- Layout
- PA / studio crossover mixer
- EQ
- Three push-button mid-range filters
Modular System Mixers
1972 – 1975- Channels
- 16
- Layout
- Modular — discrete, transformer-coupled
- EQ
- Bass / treble / presence
PR System (Sound Recording / Broadcast)
1975 – mid-1980s- Channels
- 26 – 30 (per configuration)
- Layout
- Modular — recording, broadcast and touring frames
PR40
1983 – late 1980s- Layout
- Sound reinforcement (touring FOH)
- EQ
- Four-band sweep + sweep filter
XL Series (XL3, XL4, XL250)
1991 – 2010s- Layout
- Touring FOH
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