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REMOTE ANALOG PROCESSING ● WALHAIN, BELGIUM ● PRINCE’S AMEK CONSOLE

Run it through Prince’s desk.

This AMEK console lived in Prince’s home studio on Lake Minnetonka, 1979–81. Dirty Mind was recorded on it, and the takes cut here are the ones on the album. Tracking on this desk runs from the Prince album through the start of Controversy. Rescued, restored, and now wired for remote sessions in Walhain, the geographic centre of Belgium. Send your audio from anywhere: it runs through the real desk, and comes back to your inbox. [processing options TBC]

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One desk · one pass at a time · no studio travel · no plugins [tagline draft]

Prince’s AMEK console, detail: channel strips with red, blue and green knobs and faders, next to four VU meters
ORONO, MN → WALHAIN, BE

ARCHIVE — SHEET №001

The desk, on record

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TAPE LOG — PROVENANCE

FORM PM-80 REEL 1 OF 1 ARCHIVE COPY
DESK
Prince’s AMEK
KEEPER
Kris Vanderheyden
HOME
Walhain, Belgium
FIRST LIFE
North Arm Drive, Orono MN
SOURCES
26 listed
CONFLICTS
4 open · 1 settled see card →
  1. 01

    c. 1979

    Built by AMEK in Manchester. 16 channels, aux returns for FX, dark-stained wooden frame.

  2. 02

    1979–81

    North Arm Drive, Lake Minnetonka. Tracking on this desk spans the Prince album through the start of Controversy. Dirty Mind recorded here, Prince engineering as “Jamie Starr” — the takes cut on this desk are the versions on the album. Final mixes: Hollywood Sound Recorders, LA.

  3. 03

    1981 → 2024

    Dr. Fink keeps the desk. Kris — a producer born in Halle — asks to buy it; Fink says no. That wait lasts ~20 years.

  4. 04

    NOV 2024

    Propstore, London — The Dr. Fink Collection, lot 711. Estimate £30–60,000. Closes unsold.

  5. 05

    APR 2025

    Kris Vanderheyden buys it. An eight-month Prince Estate review follows — the Estate first wants it for Paisley Park.

  6. 06

    15 DEC 2025

    It lands in Walhain, the geographic centre of Belgium. Restoration begins — built to last another 50 years. VRT breaks the story 17.04.2026.

  7. ▶

    NOW

    Open to musicians again — remote passes, booked below. Your session joins the log.

Prince seated at a mixing console in a studio, looking back over his shoulder
Prince at the board [when & where TBC]

CROSS-CHECK — WHERE SOURCES DISAGREE

  • MODEL — “X2001”: one source only, unverified. check the badge!
  • YEAR — 1977 (VRT) vs c. 1979 (auction listing).
  • NORTH ARM CONSOLE — this AMEK vs a Soundcraft 200B.
  • DEMOS vs ALBUM — one report calls these “demos”. settled: recorded here, these are the album versions ✓

SOURCES — Propstore lot 711 (Dr. Fink Collection) · MusicTech · MusicRadar · VRT NWS 17.04.2026 · RTBF · insider-music.com · Wikipedia (Dirty Mind · Doctor Fink · Kris Vanderheyden) · Goldie’s Parade — compiled 30.09.2026

SIGNAL FLOW

How a pass works

  1. BOOK

    Send the request form below. We confirm your slot and what you’re sending. [response time TBC]

  2. SEND

    You get an upload link [method TBC]. Send WAV / AIFF [formats TBC], labelled like the sheet says.

  3. THROUGH THE DESK

    We patch your audio through Prince’s AMEK — line in, gain, EQ, bus [options TBC] — and record the pass [rate TBC].

  4. RECEIVE

    Processed files come back by download [turnaround TBC], with the desk settings noted on a sheet like this one.

Prince’s AMEK console, front view: 16 channel strips with red, blue and green knobs, four VU meters and a patchbay, in a dark-stained wooden frame

[Formats, turnaround & pricing will be listed here once confirmed. Nothing on this page is final.]

RESERVATIONS — FORM 2B

Booking request

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