audio semiotics

This month at PS Dot Com: Pro Audio Equipment of the early 1960s

I do not trust you, microphone.  Yet.   The next few weeks at Preservation Sound: we bring you: in no…

13 years ago

Out-of-print Book Report: “Making 4-Track Music,” John Peel (TRACK pub., 1987)

Download a seven-page scan of some interesting hardware on offer in "Making 4-Track Music," Track Publishing 1987: DOWNLOAD: 4trackMusic_JohnPeel Includes…

13 years ago

University Speakers Circa 1963

Download the complete 20pp 1963 University Speaker Systems catalog (in two parts due to file size) DOWNLOAD PART 1: University_1963_p1…

13 years ago

Helping you come to terms with the possibility of imminent demise

Download the 1965 and 1968 Altec 'Airport Sound Systems' brochures: DOWNLOAD 1965:Altec_Jet_age_sound_systems_1965 DOWNLOAD 1968: Altec_airport_sound_systems_196X What purpose can programmed sound…

13 years ago

Time (part one)

Have you ever entered a long-abandoned space; a time capsule? Not like a cave or a forest or a wood;…

13 years ago

Circa ’75

Download a twenty-three-page excerpt of the 1975 catalog from Music Emporium of Bethesda, Maryland (h.f. 'ME'): DOWNLOAD: Music_Emporium_1975_Catalog Products covered,…

13 years ago

Takin’ em to Church (with Altec)

Download the eight-page 1966 brochure "Altec Sound Systems for Houses of Worship": DOWNLOAD: Altec_Worship_1966 The text above is taken from…

13 years ago

Every House Has A Mic

Any old house, on any street; any house where a family lived, where life happened; deep in the basement, perhaps;…

13 years ago

‘We Shape Our Tools, And Thereafter Our Tools Shape Us’: MM

(Image Source) As I wrote on day 1, the goal of this website is to investigate "the potential (of sound-altering…

13 years ago

Magnecord Historical Archive Material Part VI

Today we'll wrap up our series of original-source documents pertaining to Magnecord corporation, one of the pioneers of high-fidelity recording.…

13 years ago