Those of us of a certain age will well remember Modern Recording magazine. Published from late 1875 to early 1986, a great many wonderful projects were published in it, in addition to great product reviews, interesting tech info, and lively letters and commentary. Many of the better PAiA projects from Craig Anderton first appeared in Modern Recording.
I was googling around for something else, in response to a query on another forum, and am still quivering over finding this near-complete archive of Modern Recording, in pdf form.
Enjoy! If nothing else, you gotta love all the ads for gear of yore.
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Modern-Recording.htm
QuotePublished from late 1875 to early 1986,
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Well, the first 100 years of publication were kinda thin, and tended to concentrate on cylinder-wax quality debates (bee or paraffin?), and whether magnetic tape-recording would ever "catch on",...but that just makes them faster downloads. If it were me, I'd concentrate on the issues from 1975 on. :icon_wink:
Amazing, many thanks Mark.
I think we should both thank a Doug Pomeroy, from Brooklyn, who had the subscription and scanned all those issues.
Quote from: Mark Hammer on August 17, 2015, 02:35:36 PM
I think we should both thank a Doug Pomeroy, from Brooklyn, who had the subscription and scanned all those issues.
:o Dude must be like.. 150 year old??
Okay I get it, typo.. That's what I get for jumping on here first thing when I first wake up today.
I was really actually trying to imagine the first 70 years of a magazine on wax cylinder and magnetric wire recording. Maybe I should go back to bed. :)
We'll just chalk it up to being exhausted from an all-night recording session, right? :icon_lol:
Thanks for posting that link. I just browsed through one and they look like an interesting read. I'd be all over some of that vintage equipment from the 70s. Especially some of the 4 track reel to reel tape machines.
While the indexing is a maze, that same site has most Popular Electronics and in there a fair collection of fair "Musical Instrument" projects. Several competing rags and annuals with different projects. For deep background, Wireless World and AUDIO and RCA Review. I've been downloading for a year.
Silly me. I looked down at the listing, but never looked up at the drop-down menus. Holy pdf, Batman, that's a lotta scanning! Thanks for letting me know there's more in there.
I had run into archives of PopularElectronics and Radio Electronics, as well as BYte, but this would seem to either be a vastly improved and integrated version of those archives, or else it is an entirely different one.
There is a somewhat interesting Waa-Waa, lol, pedal on page 45 of the 1970 January issue of Popular Electronics.
This looks like a great resource! Just reading the daily updates from the last column makes me think there is an army of people doing the scanning.
November 1981 has a noise gate project on page 30.
Quote from: amptramp on August 17, 2015, 09:19:48 PM
This looks like a great resource! Just reading the daily updates from the last column makes me think there is an army of people doing the scanning.
No, there is just one of me. It's a single person effort to preserve the documents of broadcasting and related fields such as recording and engineering.
And I'm always looking for those missing issues in any of the collections.
Quote from: PRR on August 17, 2015, 07:14:29 PM
While the indexing is a maze, that same site has most Popular Electronics and in there a fair collection of fair "Musical Instrument" projects. Several competing rags and annuals with different projects. For deep background, Wireless World and AUDIO and RCA Review. I've been downloading for a year.
The indexing (search) is done by section. All the consumer electronics and audio publications are individually searchable (if there are enough issues to make this sensible) and globally. The global search for all the titles under the category is in the header bar for the "red" section; clicking the binocular will bring up the global search page.
Because the site runs on a single server, it's not feasible to do full site searches as there is just one CPU to run all the searches going on at the same time. Thus the categorized searches.
Quote from: Mark Hammer on August 17, 2015, 02:35:36 PM
I think we should both thank a Doug Pomeroy, from Brooklyn, who had the subscription and scanned all those issues.
Yes, Doug saved all those issues over the years and was kind enough to provide them to www.americanradiohistory.com to be scanned and shared with everyone.
I am loving this!!!!!!
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Consumer/Archive-Poptronics-IDX/IDX/70s/78/Poptronics-1978-06-OCR-Page-0042.pdf#search=%22fuzz%22 (http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Consumer/Archive-Poptronics-IDX/IDX/70s/78/Poptronics-1978-06-OCR-Page-0042.pdf#search=%22fuzz%22)
Page 87 of this mag!
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/60s/67/Pop-1967-01.pdf (http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/60s/67/Pop-1967-01.pdf)
EQ for guitar here - page 45:
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/1974/Poptronics-1974-07.pdf
FIND:
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Consumer/Archive-Poptronics-IDX/search.cgi?zoom_sort=0&zoom_xml=0&zoom_query=guitar&zoom_cat%5B%5D=-1&zoom_per_page=100 (http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Consumer/Archive-Poptronics-IDX/search.cgi?zoom_sort=0&zoom_xml=0&zoom_query=guitar&zoom_cat%5B%5D=-1&zoom_per_page=100)
Looks like a really cool archive! Thanks Radiodavid!
In an era when libraries are running out of space and funds for maintaining bound copies of older periodical holdings, the importance and social value of archives such as this can not be overemphasized.
Many thanks radiodavid. This is public service in the purest sense of the term.
Quote from: Blitz Krieg on August 18, 2015, 03:08:04 AM
November 1981 has a noise gate project on page 30.
Is that the Jon Gaines noise gate. Paid him a visit in Rochester in 1991, bought a couple patch bays from him which still reside in a closet somewhere.
Thank you Radiodavid!
Thanks RadioDavid!!!! Wow!
Quote from: davent on August 18, 2015, 11:11:17 AM
Quote from: Blitz Krieg on August 18, 2015, 03:08:04 AM
November 1981 has a noise gate project on page 30.
Is that the Jon Gaines noise gate. Paid him a visit in Rochester in 1991, bought a couple patch bays from him which still reside in a closet somewhere.
Yes, in fact it is.
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Modern-Recording/80s/Modern-Recording-1981-11.pdf
Quote from: Mark Hammer on August 17, 2015, 02:35:36 PM
I think we should both thank a Doug Pomeroy, from Brooklyn, who had the subscription and scanned all those issues.
I'll be happy to - he's a good friend and a wonderful, wonderful guy. He's about 70 so I suppose the 1870's issues were family heirlooms. ;)
He's an outstanding engineer - among his claims to fame are the first Beastie Boys recording "Cookiepuss" and a Grammy nomination for restoration work on a Bix Beiderbecke boxed set on the Mosaic label. He mostly does disc transfers and archival restoration - if you see his name on a reissue, grab it, he's an exceptionally good engineer.
Here's a shaka hv from Poptronics (1978): http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Consumer/Archive-Poptronics-IDX/IDX/70s/78/Poptronics-1978-03-OCR-Page-0073.pdf#search=%22fuzz%22 (http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Consumer/Archive-Poptronics-IDX/IDX/70s/78/Poptronics-1978-03-OCR-Page-0073.pdf#search=%22fuzz%22)
Cheers.
That is unbelievable!!!! It IS a Shaka pedal!!!! That is simply amazing!
It looks like it needs an output capacitor. WOW!
This guy could have been one of the first to use the mu amp publicly!
This archive is full of good reading. There's a beautiful article on "Electronic Music - Its Composition and Performance" by Robert Moog, Electronics World, 2 (1967), p. 42
Cheers.
Mod Box by BY THOMAS HENRY AND JACK ORMAN: http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Electronics/90s/1997/EN-1997-05.pdf (http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Electronics/90s/1997/EN-1997-05.pdf)
Quote from: aron on August 19, 2015, 09:58:31 PM
That is unbelievable!!!! It IS a Shaka pedal!!!! That is simply amazing!
It looks like it needs an output capacitor. WOW!
It doesn`t need an output cap, because it`s got a dual sym. PS where the output sits at zero.
This is awesome :icon_biggrin:.........I may never leave :icon_eek:
Good catch snap!
Awesome!! Thank you Radiodavid!