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An Absurd Tape Duplication Scheme c. 1950

that's right, git all up in that shit MOTHAFUKKA Ahem.  From RADIO-ELECTRONICS circa 1950 comes this piece on a forgotten…

12 years ago

Electrodyne circa 1969

Some random bits of Electrodyne kit that I came across...  Above, their ACC-1204...  looks pretty neat... anyone?  

12 years ago

Live DJ Set: Wednesday March 06: New Haven CT

Hello y'all... Once again I will be dusting off ye old 70s soul and punk vinyl at FIREHOUSE 12, New…

12 years ago

Just what I need. Another Collection.

From "The Old Timer's Bulletin" Vol 33., #1: a short piece on the minor hobby of collecting and displaying antique…

12 years ago

1982: The Age Of Digital Audio Begins (REVISED)

Above: The Mitsubishi X800, an early digital multitrack audio recorder (1980). What better way to end 70's month at PS…

12 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…

12 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,…

12 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…

12 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

Obscure Mechanical Reverbs of the 70s

If you've been reading this website for a while, you will know that I really dig old spring reverb units. …

12 years ago