Daniel Flickinger

Daniel Flickinger was an audio engineer in the late 1960's and 1970's, who designed and manufactured some of the era's most important music recording consoles. He designed recording consoles for Sly Stone, Ike and Tina Turner, Johnny Cash, and Funkadelic, Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Motown Records, and Cinderella Records among many others.

Flickinger revolutionized recorded music through an original equalization scheme, the "sweepable EQ". Many credit Flickinger with the first design of a working sweepable EQ. Others find that he was only one of many who did seminal work in early EQ innovations. Either way, his intuition gained through the design of these EQ's would influence his style of circuit design, and in turn the designs of most all other recording equipment designers in the world.

The sonic timbre of his consoles is considered directly responsible for the tones and sounds on the era's crucial recordings. Steve Albini wrote "I will go to my deathbed claiming Flickinger consoles are the best sounding mixing desks ever made. Period." [1]

The whereabouts of Daniel Flickinger are not known today.