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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

Technics ‘Professional’ Audio Line of the 1970s

1977: Matsushita's TECHNICS division announce their line of rack-mountable prosumer audio equipment.  I rarely come across this stuff; they must…

12 years ago

Neve Consoles of the 1970s

Above: Neve 8014, 8036, BCM 10, et al circa the early to mid 1970s.  Neve's US operation  was based in…

12 years ago