Spring 2012

14 years ago

Bad Vibes is one of my favorite places to find out about new music, posting significant new tracks as well…

Pultec 1977 Full-Line Catalog

14 years ago

Download the complete twelve-page 1977 Pultec outboard audio equipment catalog: DOWNLOAD: Pultec-1977_catalog Units covered, with text, specs, and photos, include:…

Tape!

14 years ago

I have an upcoming session with an artist who wants to keep the album all live, very raw.  I am…

Scott Laboratory Tube Amplifiers of the early 1960s

14 years ago

Flipping through some circa 1960AES journals I came across this pair: The Scott 140B preamplifier and 250B fifty-watt power amp. …

Visual Culture

14 years ago

Feeling a bit of an 80s thing right now.  Jesus Christ you baby boomers.  You grew up in the 1950s,…

My girl is cool. She digs the old records.

14 years ago

A mere 10 years after Bridgeport-based Columbia Records introduced the LP record, we see evidence that record collecting was already…

State of the Art Sound Reinforcement c. 1961

14 years ago

I had a live-sound mixing job this past weekend.  The system that was hired was quite nice which made the…

Misc Electric Guitar bits c. 1966

14 years ago

Above: Tony Mottola with a Gibson ES -355 in 1966. Misc Fender guitars circa 1966: a Coronado 2, an acoustic…

East Bridgeport, CT

14 years ago

Above: the view along Crescent ave from the intersection of Crescent and Bunnell, where a later Scully Recording Instruments Corp.…

Gibson Electric Guitars and Amplifiers 1956

14 years ago

Download the twenty-page 1956 Gibson Electric Guitars and Amplifiers Catalog: DOWNLOAD: Gibson_Elec_1956_cat Products covered, with text, specs, and photos, include:…