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Mechanically-Achieved Audio Time Compression/Expansion

From DB Mag, sometime mid seventies:  a really fascinating discussion of something that I would have guessed was impossible: completely…

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Leon Russell’s Direct Box circa 1975

From DB magazine, June 1975: a direct-box that was custom-designed for Leon Russell's studio.  I am a huge LR fan…

11 years ago

Consoles of the 70s : part 2

Above: the Audiotronics Grandson II console circa 1975 Way back in October of 2010 I ran a short piece about…

11 years ago

Altec full-line 1976 catalog

70's months at P S DOT COM continues with a fresh scan of the complete 1976 Altec pro audio catalog,…

11 years ago

Scully Model 100 Sixteen-Track Tape Machine of 1971

Above: The Scully 100 is introduced: 1971.  I love these headlines...  "...turns you on...   blows your mind...."   Amazing.  Anyhow... any…

11 years ago

The CBS Tech Center, High Ridge Road, Stamford CT

Above: The CBS Technology Center, development site and testing-ground for audio hardware, as seen in 1975.  An important piece of…

11 years ago

When DIY Gets Sexxxy (SFW)

From RADIO CRAFT 9/1948: plans and schematics to build a vacuum-tube powered KISS METER. In the post-war period of frenetic…

11 years ago

Stephens Electronics, maker of the 40-track analog multitrack machine (1973)

Commercially-released albums were made on 24-track tape machines for a very long period of time, approximately 1971 - 1995.  Now,…

11 years ago

Now for some really obscure shit

Above: the TOY CHEST brand 'Universal Limiter,' a FET limiter produced in 1973. Today at PS dot con: some interesting+bizarro…

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1973: The Mark Levinson Pre Amp

No account of CT audio-history could be complete without Mark Levinson.  Above: a 1973 advert for his first product, the…

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