Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Many thanks to Mikes Psalidas for giving me so much information on Cinema equalizers
Mikes Psalidas was an electronic Engineer. He designed the mixing cosole used by Finos Films, and gave the same mixing console for electronic music composer and producer Vangelis (Vangelis Papathanasiou).
I admired the sound quality of the Finos Films songs by Aliki Vougouklaki et Al, made very very insisting phonecalls to the late Finos Films headquarters, after Finos death and they inventually let on the name of the man who designed them, Mikes psalidas at that later time engineering director at Pitsos factory.
A phonecall to the factory made me speak to the man. asking, "are you the man responsible for the fantastic Finos Film sound?" He laughingly said "yes" and immediately invited me to his place later on, same day.
The first thing he did was handing me a full pack of Altec original schematics, including engineering notes. From a paper by John Eargle - Altec, on monitoring equalisation, the US patent 3624298 was found on passive equalizers used by Altec, see today's posts.
Mikes Psalidas generously immediately said that flat electronic frequency responce leads to non flat listeners's brain frequency response (not in his words), because flat electronically in simple terms sounds very bass heavy (not in his words).
And he proceeded to donate me one of the gretest books, by Hollywood engineers, Elements of Sound Recording - Frayne, Wolfe.
Saying i know, i also have this book. (First time seeing it was at the great Warwick University library). After thanking him again and taking the book we continued the interesting conversation.
We hit off very well with Mikes Psalidas, and his wife was very kind too.
I miss him.
P.S. He could not find the schematic of the mixing desks, neither did he know what had happened to the mixing desks themselves. The coils for the inductors were wound by his friend Fousekis (both were at some time at Hellenic Radio and television) in the basement of an international Airline offices at Syntagma square. His daugther later, generous as him donated most of his books.
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