The Bench

A Revox PR-99 quarter inch reel to reel tape machine, heads and transport visible

What to Check Before You Buy a Tape Machine (And What a Dying Capstan Motor Sounds Like)

Every other checklist is written for someone playing back pre-recorded reels. This one is for a producer who wants to...

What to Check Before You Buy a Tape Machine (And What a Dying Capstan Motor Sounds Like)

Every other checklist is written for someone playing back pre-recorded reels. This one is for a producer who wants to...

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A restored Soundtracs CMX4400 analogue console, sixteen VU meters across the bridge and the routing matrix at the right

How Africa Got Multitrack: A Continental Timeline in Track Counts

In 1975 three Rhodesia Television employees put a half-inch 8-track, a 12:4:2 Soundcraft and a Revox A77 in a converted...

How Africa Got Multitrack: A Continental Timeline in Track Counts

In 1975 three Rhodesia Television employees put a half-inch 8-track, a 12:4:2 Soundcraft and a Revox A77 in a converted...

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A highlife band on stage, the bandleader holding a guitar and pointing off-mic, singers beside him with a shaker and a gong-gong

Two EQ Knobs and a Fader: How the Golden Age of Highlife Was Actually Recorded

Francis Kwakye cut the records that define 1970s highlife with, in the Cambridge paper's own words, nothing but the console's...

Two EQ Knobs and a Fader: How the Golden Age of Highlife Was Actually Recorded

Francis Kwakye cut the records that define 1970s highlife with, in the Cambridge paper's own words, nothing but the console's...

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