Flipping through some circa 1960AES journals I came across this pair: The Scott 140B preamplifier and 250B fifty-watt power amp. …
Feeling a bit of an 80s thing right now. Jesus Christ you baby boomers. You grew up in the 1950s,…
A mere 10 years after Bridgeport-based Columbia Records introduced the LP record, we see evidence that record collecting was already…
I had a live-sound mixing job this past weekend. The system that was hired was quite nice which made the…
Above: Tony Mottola with a Gibson ES -355 in 1966. Misc Fender guitars circa 1966: a Coronado 2, an acoustic…
Above: the view along Crescent ave from the intersection of Crescent and Bunnell, where a later Scully Recording Instruments Corp.…
Download the twenty-page 1956 Gibson Electric Guitars and Amplifiers Catalog: DOWNLOAD: Gibson_Elec_1956_cat Products covered, with text, specs, and photos, include:…
Above: From DOWNBEAT magazine 1966: Bassist Ben Tucker discusses his home hi-fi system. Tucker played with a real who's-who of…
Above: an unpublished photo from the collection of David Hall, courtesy T. Fine. T. Fine: "Bert Whyte was an early…
************ ******* *** Do certain acoustic phenomena create universal psychological effects? Does rhythm hold primacy in the hierarchy of musical…