Hi Ron:
Good Morning!
I put the question to Dave Higgins and got this reply:
"This is definitely an
Electro Controls desk, 5 scene
preset, circa early 1970s, designed and manufactured in Salt Lake City. The picture shows several typical EC
desk construction features, such as beige, welded sheet steel housings and dark anodized, engraved aluminum
face panels. The cross faders and scene masters are also classic EC, and they appear to be in pretty bad shape with missing plastics and handle parts. The
channel faders on the vertical
wing (each vertical row represents one
dimmer) are on individual plug-in PC boards incorporating all 5 scene potentiometers and the selector switches at the bottom. All pots and switches were backlit, and as I recall the cumulative heat output from a few hundred 1-watt bulbs did a good job keeping the booth warm. At least for the first year or two, after which most of the bulbs would be burnt out. The master section appears to include some custom
houselight and
worklight controls. This was also typical, as these consoles were made to order for every job and it would be rare for two systems to be alike. During the first couple of years that I worked for the company, I wired several similar consoles and all the parts look hauntingly familiar. Although this
desk is strictly
manual, EC also produced a memory version called MicroSet that looked much the same on the outside. The
manual preset was used for backup as the early drum or disc technology and associated IC logic could be finicky to say the least.
Is this
desk still in use? If so, it’s only a few decades past its best-before date and it’s nothing short of miraculous that it still works."
There you have it.
Best,
Van