music production trends

Beyond Four Tracks

Sansui six-track cassette format c. 1989 Otari Compact 8-track 1/2" format c. 1989.   Also, SECK mixer. Toa 8-track cassette format…

12 years ago

What is an audio engineer? c. 1961

From an AES journal circa 1961.  It's interesting to see how the meaning of 'audio engineer' has shifted over the…

13 years ago

Here’s those EQs and Compressors you asked for. Now go F’ yrself.

Above: 12x3 Audiofax mixing desk circa 1961. I was reading a 1961 AES journal when I came across this piece…

13 years ago

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

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

Unusual Techniques In Sound Recording (1950)

Download a four-page article from 'Radio Electronics' magazine 5/1950 entitled "Unusual Techniques In Sound Recording" (Richard H. Dorf): DOWNLOAD: Unusual_Techniques_Sound_Recording_Dorf_1950…

13 years ago