Was electronics repair ever a ‘sexy’ profession? “RADIO NEWS” March 1940 seems to make this case. Wishful thinking, I imagine…
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Month: July 2012
Thanks to H. Layer: A never-before-available Magnecord, INC factory-film circ 1955 (???) is now available on YouTube. These are the people that built the machines that powered broadcast tape-recording on the 1950s.
Click here to see the video on YouTube
Loads more Magnecord INC history and related information on PS dot com… just click here!
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Beyond Four Tracks
Sansui six-track cassette format c. 1989
Otari Compact 8-track 1/2″ format c. 1989. Also, SECK mixer.
Toa 8-track cassette format
…and you better bet TASCAM made one too.
Above: some short-lived “more-than-four” home-recording formats that were available between the 4-track cassette and ADAT eras. It’s kind hard to imagine how significant an issue ‘track count’ (IE., the number of available tracks of a particular multi-track recording machine) was just a short while ago. It’s not unusual at all these days for me to make a production for an artist that has 80 or even 100 tracks. And I am not talking about some crazy orchestral or prog-rock epic; I am talking about just a well-produced indie pop song. Modern music means layering. Lots of it. When I, and many other folks started doing this, we dreamed of someday having more than 8 tracks to work with. Well, as it turns out, ‘more’ didn’t mean 16, 24, or even 48: it meant infinite. “Be careful what you wish for…”
What will be the next technological barrier to fall in the world of audio production?
I wouldn’t mind seeing all those goddamn wires go away, for one…
Any other ideas?
Cyborg chick with some sort of midi-synchonizer
I play the keyboards (for Bon Jovi)
(pointy guitars are) impossible to (avoid) / (resist)
“Well I like your style too, man. Got a whole cowboy thing goin…”
Bathroom Studio
Kitchen Studio
Yamaha home-studio adverts circa 1989. Click on the images to expand.
As the first in a series of “Brief Trends in Visual Culture,” we bring you: synthesizers photographed on stone-colored backgrounds. Pictured above: Roland S50, Korg SG1, EMU Emax SE and Emulator 3. If anyone can explain the significance of the all the stone-gray backgrounds, please let us know.
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1967
The Selmer Varitone Saxophone amplification system circa 1967. Click here for previous coverage on PS dot com. I once bought a few of the lil cigarette-pack-sized belt-mount preamp units; they make the most fantastic fuzz sounds when used with gtr or bass. Long gone to the eBay wilds…
Heathkit rock-band hardware circa 1967, including Heath-distributed Rocket, Silhouette, and ‘Deluxe’ Harmony guitars. Also on offer: Heathkit TA-16 solid-state guitar amp. Click here and here for more Heathkit coverage on PS dot com.