Beigel Sound Lab was formed in 1971 and
provided product prototypes of musical products. The first prototypes of a
unique synthesizer and "Timbre Generation" filter bank were produced
for Guild musical instruments by
Mike Beigel and
Isidor Straus. Then
Mike Beigel set up Beigel Sound Lab to finish the
production engineering and final prototypes. Shortly afterwards, Guild's
president Al Dronge was killed in an airplane crash and Guild dropped the
synthesizer project. We then produced a prototype envelope controlled filter
from some components of the original Guild synthesizer, then formed
Musitronics Corp and
invented the
Mu-Tron III
and other products. In 1978
Musitronics was sold
to ARP instruments and I re-started Beigel Sound Lab to provide musical product
design services on a consulting basis.
A prominant musician had asked for a more
sophisticated version of the
Mu-Tron III, so I designed the rackmount Beigel Sound Lab
Envelope Controlled Filter and had about 50 manufactured in 1980. Many
prominant musicians including
Elliott Randall,
Marlo Henderson, Tim Bogert, Michael Iceberg, Jeff Baxtor, and Will Lee used
them.
In 1996 I started working with Mike Matthews of
Electro Harmonix
and have devoted all my musical product work to Electro-Harmonix since then
leading to the development of the
Q-Tron.
However, we still service Beigel Sound Lab and
Mu-Tron vintage equipment,
and have a few selected units for sale from our
in-house
collection.
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