ICON: Marshall Amplification

14 years ago

What greater visual icon for the mythic virility and power of the circa-1970 Rock-Star than the "Marshall Stack?" (web source)…

DESIGN ICON: MXR audio effects in the 1970s

14 years ago

MXR Innovations began making their first product, the Phase 90 phase-shift pedal, in the early 1970s. (web source) Phase-shift is…

Hammond Times Promotional Magazine 1953

14 years ago

Hammond Times was published by the Hammond Organ Company from around 1938 through at least 1962 (the last issue that…

Cuttin’ Records: RCA Recording Filter and Cutting-Arm Assembly

14 years ago

Most days in the studio end with me making WAV or MP3 files of scratch mixes or final masters.  I…

MJ Audio Technology Magazine

14 years ago

In a previous post, I discussed the late great American magazine Audio, published between 1947 and 2000.  Audio combined equipment…

Audio + Design Scamp Outboard Modules

14 years ago

Audio + Design (Also known as Audio & Design, or Audio and Design, or Audio Design Recording- hf. ADR) is…

Yamaha Electronic Keyboard Lineup Circa 1980

14 years ago

The first in a 3-month series of scans of obscure audio paper:  the entire Yamaha Keyboard line from approx.  1980…

Under Construction. Call For Archival Requests.

14 years ago

Tomorrow marks the first day of what we expect to be a 3-month period of intense construction work to create…

Shour. It’s Your Sound.

14 years ago

I wrote briefly about Cairo Egypt in an earlier post. As usually happens on our vacations, I try to seek…

Mixing in the 70’s – UPDATE 2 -Philips Console Information

14 years ago

Philips Mixing Console c. 1974 Since we originally published this post in 2010, several folks have written in to provide…