17 Facts About Louis Dorren

Louis Dorren, commonly referred to as Lou Dorren, was an American sound engineer, music producer and inventor.

In 1969 Dorren invented the Quadraplex system of single station, discrete, compatible four-channel FM broadcasting.

Louis Dorren founded Quadracast Systems, Inc of Palo Alto, California, United States to license his patents to RCA and others.

Louis Dorren was awarded more than a dozen patents in the radio communications field, many of which are still in use today.

Louis Dorren's recording experience was starting to develop when at the age of 15 he was recording a local group.

Louis Dorren was the inventor of the QSI system that sparked up interest in quadraphonic broadcasting.

Louis Dorren was well known to the organizers of the Westcoast Songwriter's Conference, with him and his company sponsoring and supporting the event for years.

Louis Dorren died on October 26,2014, from complications of heart and kidney problems.

Louis Dorren's remains were interred at the Salem Memorial Park cemetery in Colma, California.

Bay Sound Records was a label that Louis Dorren started in the 1960s.

Around 1964 when he was 15 years old, Louis Dorren was friendly with some guys at his high school who had a band called The Banshees.

Decades later after The Beau Brummels had broken up, remaining members of the band got together with Louis Dorren and recorded a new album that was released on his Bay Sound label in 2013.

In 1974, Louis Dorren who was still a college student at the time assisted radio station owner Jim Gabbert in the broadcast.

In 1973, Louis Dorren was working with Jac Holzman, president of Elektra Records, in relation to the CD-4 system and its relationship to the records.

In 1974, Louis Dorren was at a party with his fiance Nancy Bostic.

Louis Dorren had a chance to demo his IC chip CD-4 Discrete Quadracast Systems demodulator.

In 2007,33 years after his first CD-4 demodulator, Louis Dorren designed a new one with the technology of the day in mind.