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When DIY Gets Sexxxy (SFW)

From RADIO CRAFT 9/1948: plans and schematics to build a vacuum-tube powered KISS METER. In the post-war period of frenetic…

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Stephens Electronics, maker of the 40-track analog multitrack machine (1973)

Commercially-released albums were made on 24-track tape machines for a very long period of time, approximately 1971 - 1995.  Now,…

13 years ago

Now for some really obscure shit

Above: the TOY CHEST brand 'Universal Limiter,' a FET limiter produced in 1973. Today at PS dot con: some interesting+bizarro…

13 years ago

1973: The Mark Levinson Pre Amp

No account of CT audio-history could be complete without Mark Levinson.  Above: a 1973 advert for his first product, the…

13 years ago

Forgotten 70s Pro Audio maker Gately Electronics

Above: Gately's Stereo Briefcase Mixer circa 1970. Gately Electronics was a Pennsylvania-based pro-audio manufacturing and importation/ distribution operation which seems…

13 years ago

Obscure Mechanical Reverbs of the 70s

If you've been reading this website for a while, you will know that I really dig old spring reverb units. …

13 years ago

Technics ‘Professional’ Audio Line of the 1970s

1977: Matsushita's TECHNICS division announce their line of rack-mountable prosumer audio equipment.  I rarely come across this stuff; they must…

13 years ago

Neve Consoles of the 1970s

Above: Neve 8014, 8036, BCM 10, et al circa the early to mid 1970s.  Neve's US operation  was based in…

13 years ago

ADM Console built for Fine Recording, INC

In the account of his folk's FINE RECORDING, INC., operation, Tom Fine mentioned the custom ADM console that was installed…

13 years ago

1970: When Wendy Was Walter

Shortly before successful composer Walter Carlos enacted a major life-change, he appeared in this advert for Dolby noise-reduction hardware.

13 years ago