🇺🇸 Sound Workshop

Series 1600

1978 – mid-1980s

Technical specs

Channels Up to 36×32 (field expandable)
Automation ready $10,000 – $50,000+ Positioned against Neve, MCI and SSL

Sound Workshop's flagship large-format console — "high-performance, automation ready." Available in several main-frame sizes, all field expandable to a maximum configuration of 36×32. Priced from $10,000 to over $50,000, the Series 1600 positioned Sound Workshop against Neve, MCI, and SSL in the upper tier of American commercial studio consoles. The ad copy called it "the new alternative for competent studio planning."

Notable Recordings

  • US commercial studio productions, late 1970s–mid 1980s

Studios

  • US upper-tier commercial studios