3M – Preservation Sound https://www.preservationsound.com information and ideas about audio history Fri, 04 Apr 2014 13:13:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Highlights from the 1971 AES Convention https://www.preservationsound.com/highlights-from-the-1971-aes-convention/ https://www.preservationsound.com/highlights-from-the-1971-aes-convention/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2014 13:10:09 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=8017 AES_1971,,,and today, perhaps unsurprisingly: some of the new kit unveiled in 1971 at the NYC AES show, also via DB mag.  Of note: Auto-Tec, Scully, Ampex and 3M intro’d new 16-track machines, Neve made a push for a new console (would this have been the series 80?), AKG introduced the BX-20 reverb, Melcor showed its model 5001 electronic reverb (anyone???), and a new company called Eventide introduced a digital pitch-shift device!  The Neumann U47-fet and Sennheiser MHK-815 mics were introduced, as were the Marantz 500 and Crown M2000 power amplifiers.

Click here to DL a pdf of the proceedings: AES_1971_DBmag

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There is just a shit-tonne more of this stuff, so click the link below to READ ON;;;;;

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]]> https://www.preservationsound.com/highlights-from-the-1971-aes-convention/feed/ 3 Highlights from the 1970 AES Convention, Los Angeles, CA https://www.preservationsound.com/highlights-from-the-1970-aes-convention-los-angeles-ca/ https://www.preservationsound.com/highlights-from-the-1970-aes-convention-los-angeles-ca/#respond Fri, 04 Apr 2014 01:56:12 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=8003 GRT_deckabove: the GRT 500 audio-tape evaluator c. 1970

Just in case you were too-young/too-hypothetical to have attended, we are pleased to bring you highlights from the 1970 convention of the Audio Engineering Society (via ye olde DB Magazine, r.i.p.).   You can download the whole shebang here…

DOWNLOAD: AES_1970_DB_mag

…and we’ve also reproduced it below for your browsing enjoyment.  Products on offer at that time include: mixing consoles from Electrodyne, Gately, Quad-Eight, Spectra-sonics, Fairchild, Langevin, and Altec.  Opamp labs had kits on offer as well.  Tape machines include 3M, Otari ‘of Japan,’ Teac 7030, GRT 500, Norelco (Phillips) pro-51, Sony Superscope TC-850, and Ampex. Dolby’s model 360 N/R system debuted, as did the Melcor ‘all electronic’ reverb and the Urei LA-3. New microphones on offer included the Electro-voice DS-35 and the Shure SM-53.

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