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1969: An American Visits Soviet Recording Studios

SovietConsole1970From DB magazine, Nov 1969: John Woram visits a few Russian recording studios, Moogs in tow.

DOWNLOAD: db_Mag-6911-To_Russia_with_Worham

SovietConsoleStrip_1970Thanks to TF for the scan.  Much much more from ye olde DB mag to come soon…

One reply on “1969: An American Visits Soviet Recording Studios”

The Soviet equipment I have seen is generally a close cousin to the German equipment of a few years earlier, usually ruggedly but crudely built. In some cases it’s obvious they were able to get hold of actual German tooling, just as with the Hasselblad focal plane shutter camera and their version of the early Telefunken scopes and meters.

When reading these articles bear in mind…If you were in the arts in the Soviet Union during this time, you weren’t quite as likely to be shot for slight differences of opinion with the commissars as in the Stalin era, but your career was always hanging by a thread and the Gulag was by no means ever out of your thoughts.

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