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When they were young: introducing a few audio classics

Circa 1970: The API 512, Shure SM58, Neumann FET 47, and Urei LA-3A all have got something to prove to…

13 years ago

February is 70’s Month At Preservation Sound Dot Com

Ah the 1970s: that in-between-time which spanned the earthy-idealism and radical upheavals of the 1960s with the slick techno-consumerist-complacency of…

13 years ago

The Black Box

Let's just say hypothetically that you had to write+ record a tremendous amount of guitar-based music very quickly.  And even…

13 years ago

1970: The Sound Of Money

listen to the sound that money-making jingle Ampex tape machines Feel free to submit your own Haikus on this theme. …

13 years ago

UPDATED: The Audio Technica 813 Condensor Microphone c. 1977

(update at close of article) I was flipping thru a pile of old DB magazines and the above image caught…

13 years ago

1969: An American Visits Soviet Recording Studios

From DB magazine, Nov 1969: John Woram visits a few Russian recording studios, Moogs in tow. DOWNLOAD: db_Mag-6911-To_Russia_with_Worham Thanks to…

13 years ago

Live DJ Set Tonight Wednesday 1.16.13 @FIREHOUSE 12, New Haven CT

Tonight: I will again be joining JBW aka Sway behind the decks at Firehouse 12 in New Haven Connecticut.  We'll…

13 years ago

Pioneer SR101 ‘Reverbe’ Unit

I picked up the above-depicted Pioneer SR-101 all-tube Stereo Reverb unit for a few dollars at the final flea of…

13 years ago

Time to display that Microphone Collection

Just in case you're not quite ready to sell yr extensive microphone collection, Arthur Trauffer offers a novel way of…

13 years ago

King-Vibe Amplifier

As I mentioned on my Tumblr last year, I used the idle time during our annual Open Studios event to…

13 years ago