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Picked up a few interesting pieces today.  Above, an Altec 660B microphone circa 1958.  I already had a 660A (same…

12 years ago

1971

Art dep't comp for a Wes Anderson film? Nope, it's the cover of the 1971 Heathkit catalog. Stumbled upon this,…

12 years ago

Genre-branded instruments

(Image Source) On eBay: a circa 1990 Casio Rap-1 'Rapman' synthesizer/child's-toy.  In its original box with original accessory-microphone; click here…

12 years ago

Tape Editing Primer – part 2

The Alice 62/3B broadcast console circa 1977.  No relation to the subject of this article.... Following our earlier post of…

12 years ago

What do we get from the sound of a space?

Above: Mato (drums) and Jon (seated) during drum tracking.  Recognize the space?  If so, you are one of the 12…

12 years ago

UPDATED: Link: Live Radio Interview Friday 5.11 8AM *** 89.5 WPKN Bridgeport

Tomorrow, 5.11.12, I'll be a guest on Del's "In Transition" show in the eight o'clock hour.  We'll be listening to…

12 years ago

Guitar Synths of the late 1970s

The 360 Systems 'Spectre' Today as PS dot com: a quick look at the then-new product-category of Guitar Synths circa…

12 years ago

Excellent Tape-Editing Primer c. 1976

Download a five-page article by Mortimer Goldberg as first published in DB magazine, 12/76: DOWNLOAD:dB-7612-CBS_Radio-Art_of_Tape_Editing Many thanks to T.F. for…

12 years ago

Pawnshop Classics: off-brand Japanese guitars of the late 70’s

The Aria Pro-II TS-500.  It's a super-strat, it's a hippie sandwich, it's a mock BC Rich...  Aria II was better…

12 years ago

Electra Guitars of the 1970s

Above: an Electra ad from 1979 which seems to be suggesting that by using their sound-effects controls incorporated into the…

12 years ago