This is pretty rad. 10×3 (plus echo send) console circa 1955 built for one Jimmy Carroll, who we apparently have to thank for the 10,000,000,0000 sing-along-with-mitch LPs that clog every Salvation Army record-bin from here to Timbuktu. ANYways… check it out here… Dude seems a tad optimistic with the price, considering what the legendary Kearney Barton console went for. (also see here). Cool to check out, nontheless. Here’s one of the preamp modules:
Can you say “Costume Change!”
“Top artists told us what they wanted, and we listened.”
In 1981 you could apparently purchase an Anvil-briefcase loaded with seven ATM-41 mics, each in a different color. Seven corresponding mic cables were also included, as well as… touch-up-paint. The price of admission to this zenith of vanity? $1595 (list), aka $4080 at the pump this week.
Via this eBay auction: a UTC A-12 mounted on a plate-retained octal plug, with the pins wired to correspond to the pin-out of an Altec 4722 input transformer.
It had simply never occurred to me that the mounting-diameter of a UTC A-series corresponded to the mounting-diameter of those octal-mount plates. Well done sir. Great idea if you have an Altec 1567, 1566, or ANY piece of old pro audio gear that uses octal transformers – and a great many do. RCA, Newcomb, Ampex, the list goes on….
Download a 4-PP chart from Sennheiser, circa 197*, on the subject of choosing the appropriate model of microphone for your application. Sample topics: Will you be recording animals?
Choosing a mic ain’t easy.
Download now. It’s all very logical. Sennheiser_Chart
Download a 5pp review of the Fostex home-multitrack range circa 1981. Published in British magazine STUDIO SOUND, the review covers the Fostex A-2, A-4, A-8, as well as the Fostex 350 mixer. Review is by one G. Chkiantz.
DOWNLOAD: Fostex_A_range_1981
Download the original 2pp product sheet for the Publison model DHM 89 B2:
DOWNLOAD:Publison
Publison is a French manufacturer which made at least two generations of this highly advanced early digital signal processor/sampler. Later offerings progressed to proto-DAW systems. There seems to be a fair amount of information online regarding the later Infernal Machine Model 90, but very little on this early piece. Best part:
…by 1982 you could also get a companion keyboard that offered the promise of ‘Taming’ any sound, IE., conventionally-pitched sample playback. While I was well aware of super-pricing contemporary offerings by the like of New England Digital that offered similar performance possibilities, this lil keyboard took me by surprise. Anyone using one of these things? Drop a line…
Download the original 12pp catalog for the Telefunken 15A tape machine:
DOWNLOAD: Telefunken_Magnetophon_15A
I can’t imagine that many of these things were sold in the US. If you’ve used one, and have some conception of how it compares to contemporary offerings from Studer, Ampex, and MCI, drop us a line a weigh in…
K
Download the original catalogs for the Kenwood KH-71, KH-51, KH-31; the Sansui SS-35; the Pioneer SEQ-4 quad headphone; the Superex Pro-B VI; and the entire Koss line, including the ESP-9, ESP-6, K 2+2, Pro 4AA, KO-747, KO-727B, K-6LC, K-6, SP-3XC.
DOWNLOAD: Headphones
I have not owned any of these other than the Superex (which were fkkn terrible), but damn these things had style… which is interesting when one considers that this was all pre-walkman, IE., these were not fashion items; no one other than yr S.O. would have seen you wearing them. Any opinions, L U K…
Wanna talk about rare? How about a keyboard synth of which only two were ever made, and only one has survived; the price was $30K (in today’s bread: $85,000). The only person to buy it? Beck‘s old man. The guy who currently owns it? This dude. I ended up with two copies of the original sales lit for this thing; I offer to you all here as a HQ scan:
DOWNLOAD: ConBrio_ADS_200
You can read the story of the Conbrio ADS 200 at this Wiki page. I really don’t need two copies of the catalog, so Kehew, if yr reading this… drop me a line and its yrs.
I think I may need a bigger scanner
How y’all doin. I’m happy to announce that we have just received a massive archive of literature, catalogs, manuals, ETC., from a storied studio/post-facility originating circa 1980. I don’t even know exactly what’s in these boxes yet, but get ready for some odd + interesting curious from audio-land-past. More to come…