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]]> https://www.preservationsound.com/just-feeling-1972-in-general/feed/ 1 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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