Above: Gately's Stereo Briefcase Mixer circa 1970. Gately Electronics was a Pennsylvania-based pro-audio manufacturing and importation/ distribution operation which seems…
If you've been reading this website for a while, you will know that I really dig old spring reverb units. …
1977: Matsushita's TECHNICS division announce their line of rack-mountable prosumer audio equipment. I rarely come across this stuff; they must…
Above: Neve 8014, 8036, BCM 10, et al circa the early to mid 1970s. Neve's US operation was based in…
In the account of his folk's FINE RECORDING, INC., operation, Tom Fine mentioned the custom ADM console that was installed…
Shortly before successful composer Walter Carlos enacted a major life-change, he appeared in this advert for Dolby noise-reduction hardware.
Circa 1970: The API 512, Shure SM58, Neumann FET 47, and Urei LA-3A all have got something to prove to…
Ah the 1970s: that in-between-time which spanned the earthy-idealism and radical upheavals of the 1960s with the slick techno-consumerist-complacency of…
Let's just say hypothetically that you had to write+ record a tremendous amount of guitar-based music very quickly. And even…
listen to the sound that money-making jingle Ampex tape machines Feel free to submit your own Haikus on this theme. …