Aye caramba! Archive I always wished for actually exists!

[Mark Hammer]

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

[digi2t]

Published from late 1875 to early 1986,

[Mark Hammer]

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. 

[StephenGiles]

Amazing, many thanks Mark.

[Mark Hammer]

I think we should both thank a Doug Pomeroy, from Brooklyn, who had the subscription and scanned all those issues.

[hymenoptera]

I think we should both thank a Doug Pomeroy, from Brooklyn, who had the subscription and scanned all those issues.

Dude must be like.. 150 year old??

[hymenoptera]

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.

[Mark Hammer]

We'll just chalk it up to being exhausted from an all-night recording session, right? 

[FuzzFanatic71]

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. 

[PRR]

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.

[Mark Hammer]

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.

[bloxstompboxes]

There is a somewhat interesting Waa-Waa, lol, pedal on page 45 of the 1970 January issue of Popular Electronics.

[amptramp]

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.

[Blitz Krieg]

November 1981 has a noise gate project on page 30.

[radiodavid]

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.

[radiodavid]

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.

[radiodavid]

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.

[aron]

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

Page 87 of this mag!
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

[Luke51411]

Looks like a really cool archive! Thanks Radiodavid!

[Mark Hammer]

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.