With the estate sale/ flea market season upon us, I thought it might be an interesting experiment to try a…
Hondo II: the First Name In First Bands. Marketed as ideal beginner-instruments, Hondo II was the US brand name for…
For the next two weeks at PS dot com: we'll be taking an extended journey through the 1970s. I was…
DOD. The effects pedal brand that spanned the (original) MXR and BOSS eras, never having quite the cachet of either,…
Daion guitars were built in the Japan in the late 70s/early 80s. I believe that the model depicted here is…
Flipping through some circa 1960AES journals I came across this pair: The Scott 140B preamplifier and 250B fifty-watt power amp. …
Above: From DOWNBEAT magazine 1966: Bassist Ben Tucker discusses his home hi-fi system. Tucker played with a real who's-who of…
************ ******* *** Do certain acoustic phenomena create universal psychological effects? Does rhythm hold primacy in the hierarchy of musical…
Today: some excerpts from a piece by C.W. Vadersen as published in the AES journal. It's a good thing to…
Above: the Electrovoice 643 super-directional microphone of 1961. The 643 was apparently developed by the same engineer who created the…