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

13 years ago

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

The Norelco/Phillips EL 6911 Studio Echo Machine c.1961

13 years ago

Good lord take a look at this thing.  The Phillips EL 6911 echo machine.  Distributed in the US by Norelco,…

AKG Studio Microphones Circa 1962

13 years ago

The AKG C-24 stereo condenser mic.  Yes please.  I think if I added up all the time i have spent…

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

13 years ago

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

Mics of ’56

13 years ago

Above: Belden 8411, 8422, and 8412 microphone cable.  I still use Belden 9451 for most studio hard-wiring tasks, although I…

Audio Manipulation Technologies c. 1956: Radio SFX

13 years ago

From Radio And Television News, 2/56: a short article concerning the creation of sound effects for use in radio commercials,…

Fine Recording Inc: Pioneers in High-Fidelity Studio Recording: UPDATED – 5

13 years ago

C. Robert Fine and Wilma Cozart Fine c.1961 (Source: T. Fine) Today at Preservation Sound dot com we are pleased…

AWA (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia) Broadcast Equipment

13 years ago

Download a 24pp pdf with schematics and technical information regarding all AWA-brand vacuum-tube broadcast audio amplifiers circa 1967: DOWNLOAD: ABCstudioEquipment…

Audio Transformer As Signal Processor

13 years ago

Sometime in the past couple of years, Tape Op ran a short piece by Allen Farmelo titled "Using Transformers to…

Stereo Audio Power Amplifier (Home Use)

13 years ago

Above, a recently completed piece.  It is built on one of two identical NOS cabinets that I pulled from a…