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UREI Vintage
![]() Universal
Audio, was a designer and manufacturer of recording, mixing and audio signal
processing hardware for the professional recording studio, live sound and
broadcasting fields. Universal Audio was responsible for many innovations in
the recording and sound reinforcement industry including the modern mixing
console layout, per channel equalization (or EQ) and effects connectors (or
send buses). The firm began in Chicago, founded by Bill Putnam Sr. in the
1950s, as a design and manufacturing addition to 'Universal Recording', his
recording studio business. When Putnam moved to Hollywood in 1957, the
manufacturing company was renamed UREI, and included a division called
Teletronix.
UREI and TeletronixInsulated
from the recording studio changes, Universal Audio was thriving upstairs in the
first Hollywood building under the new name
United Recording Electronics Industries (UREI). The manufacturing and design
company had acquired the patent rights to the electro-optical LA-2A stereo
leveling amplifier. UREI also acquired National Intertel, which became the
Teletronix division. From this acquisition came technology which developed into
the 1176LN peak limiter in 1968, and the 1108 FET preamp.
Other
well-received UREI products included the LA-4 electro-optical compressor
limiter, the UREI Teletronix LA-3A electro-optical leveling amplifier and
the 500-series UREI graphic equalizers.
By 1976,
UREI had moved their manufacturing and service center to Sun Valley, California.
JBL-UREI
co-branding (1985 to 1987)
Edward M.
Long of E.M. Long Associates in Oakland, California collaborated with UREI to
create the 813 family of time-aligned studio monitor speakers in 1977. The
813 used Altec Lansing, and later, JBL loudspeaker drivers.
In 1985,
Putnam sold the studios as well as the manufacturing division and left the
business. JBL picked up the UREI name and service contracts, releasing
"JBL-UREI" branded products such as the 5547A graphic equalizer in
1986. Putnam died in 1989.
In 2005,
Soundcraft began to offer a UREI-by-Soundcraft badged 1620LE, with 'LE'
standing for 'Limited Edition'. The mixer was a renewal of the UREI 1620, a
1980s-era clone of Rudy Bozak's classic 1960s-era disc jockey mixer, the
CMA-10-2DL. Soundcraft provided the new product line with its own website: www.ureidj.com.
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