Stellavox

Stellavox is a company founded in 1955, which was engaged until the final dissolution in 1988 in the main with the development and production of portable tape recorders. In addition, studio equipment and tape machines were produced for data recording. As early as 1964 had to be sold to the company of the Kudelski Stellavox competitors, but was founded in 1968 again. In the 70 years Stellavox also built mixing consoles, the most famous was the AMI 48 Total 900 consoles were produced. A successor company under the leadership of Jean -Pierre Gurtner provides spare parts and service for many Stellavoxmodelle. There is also a company called Stellavox in Switzerland, she works with the same logo as the former company, but does not create recording devices, but power amplifiers, analog-to- digital converter and Passive volume controls for studio use.

Georges Ouellet

The company founder Georges Ouellet was born on 10 May 1929 in Neuchatel, Switzerland. In 1955 he founded his company Stellavox and began the production of tape recorders, first for sound hunters associations.

Models

Details

From the SP7 following formats were possible by changing the head carrier:

• Mono (full track and half-track )
• Stereo ( half-track and quarter track )
• Neo - pilot tone (with Mono)
• Synchrotron (for stereo, a Stellavox own development)

The mechanics dominates all relevant band speeds up to about 50 cm / s In each case, the appropriate head support was required, there was also the head support with two reversible speeds (9,5 / 19 cm / s or 19/38 cm / s).

For consoles the interesting thing was that they were installed in the same housing as the "SP" - tape machines. The level meters and Master faders were not right as usual, but SP Compliant left attached to the appliance.