Manufacturers

Harrison Recording/ Mixing Consoles Circa 1980 : complete catalog scan

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE IM A HIGHER BEING if you get that reference we're probably in the same karass and…

7 years ago

Forgotten 70s Pro Audio maker Gately Electronics

Above: Gately's Stereo Briefcase Mixer circa 1970. Gately Electronics was a Pennsylvania-based pro-audio manufacturing and importation/ distribution operation which seems…

12 years ago

Rare Tony Schwartz Interview/Profile From “Better Listening Through Hi-Fi” July 1957

Tony Schwartz is a towering figure in the worlds of audio production, advertising, and media studies.  I recently came across…

12 years ago

Fairchild Kit Of The Early 1960s

Above: the Fairchild 661 Auto-ten (a noise gate, apparently), 740 Lathe, 602 and 600 Conax (de-essers, apparently), 670 stereo limiter,…

13 years ago

What’s a Fostex?

Download the 4pp circa 1984 Fostex Full Line (condensed) catalog: DOWNLOAD: Fostex1984 Fostex was the yin to Tascam's yang in…

14 years ago

Pilot Radio Corp Hi-Fi Line Circa 1962

Download the entire twenty-page 1962 PILOT hi-fi catalog: DOWNLOAD: Pilot_HiFi_Line_1962_Catalog Models covered include: Pilot 610, 602MA, 602SA, 654MA, and 746…

14 years ago

Audio + Design Scamp Outboard Modules

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

14 years ago

The Sound of ’51

In the process of preparing tomorrow's post, I came across these circa 1951 microphone ads.  Check em out.  Some icons…

14 years ago

ICON: Guild Instruments

Even if you have never played a guitar in your entire life, you are probably familiar with the Gibson and…

14 years ago

Saul Marantz and The Roots of Great Design

A few years ago I bought a pile of old electronic parts from an anonymous junk dealer.  Random stuff- 5…

14 years ago