Dynacord EQ-270
The Dynacord EQ-270 is a 27-band equalizer for professional sound work. It was designed and built in West Germany and sold in the U.S. by Unicord, a Gulf + Western division based in Westbury, New York. Nearly everything known about it comes from a review by Len Feldman in Modern Recording (June 1983, p.58).
Feldman reported that each band control has calibration marks across a +12 dB to - 12 dB range. Every band is labeled with its center frequency, and the standard values begin at 40, 50, 63, 80, 100, and 125 Hz (the surviving copy of the review is cut off partway through the frequency list). He compared it with an octave-by-octave, 10-band equalizer. The 27-band unit can notch out a feedback frequency far more narrowly, which matters audibly when the goal is to leave the music around the notch intact. He was blunt about the catch, though. With 27 bands plus a level control, setting it by ear would rarely produce a properly adjusted system. This is professional gear, meant to be used in a professional way (Modern Recording, June 1983, p.60).
Dynacord's own advertisements from the same period, also running in Modern Recording, claimed the company was Europe's leading professional sound-reinforcement maker, known for over thirty years in roughly 120 countries and just then making its push into America. The EQ-270 appears to have been part of that U.S. launch. Beyond that review and those ads, documented information on this specific model is thin — but the record that survives
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