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Death By Digital: How Technology Killed Music

Death By Digital: How Technology Killed Music
The electric guitar has been one stronghold of pre-digital technology which refuses to die. Just as video killed the radio star, digital ...

The House Piano Sound Explained

The House Piano Sound Explained
It’s not rocket science, but the Italian house piano sound , which drove so many iconic dance music tracks from the late ’80s and the ’90s, ...

What Was The First Digital Piano?

What Was The First Digital Piano?
I remember being incredibly jealous when a mate announced to me back in the mists of time that he’d just acquired a Yamaha electric piano an...

The Fujifilm Finepix A405 Digital Camera

The Fujifilm Finepix A405 Digital Camera
When Fuji began distributing their A405 digital camera exclusively to the Dixons / Curry’s / PC World group of stores in the autumn of 2...

The Kodak Easyshare V1003 Compact Camera in Retrospect

The Kodak Easyshare V1003 Compact Camera in Retrospect
BACKGROUND Things had looked very promising for Kodak in the early days of digital cameras, when the company drove the 1990s market of D...

The Fujifilm DX-5 and DX-7 Digital Cameras of 1997

The Fujifilm DX-5 and DX-7 Digital Cameras of 1997
1997. The digital camera was barely a year old in the consumer domain. Its fanbase almost universally comprised computer techies on the look...

The Mysterious Fuji Finepix A403

The Mysterious Fuji Finepix A403
The Fuji Finepix A403 could be an elusive little devil. Back in the camera's 'heyday' of 2003, many photographers had never h...

Early Digital Camera - The Fuji FinePix 1300

Early Digital Camera - The Fuji FinePix 1300
The Fuji FinePix 1300 digital camera (circa 2000), sitting atop a Jessops photographic catalogue from early 2001. After the Christmas 2000 ...

Home Recording in the 1990s

Home Recording in the 1990s
The concept of keeping pretty much all of a home recording within the casing of a computer has now been with us for so long that it can be ...

The Alesis MIDIFEX - Sound of the '80s

The Alesis MIDIFEX - Sound of the '80s
1986. New ground has been broken. Formerly the preserve of professional studios only, high quality digital reverb has entered the amateur ma...

Alesis NanoPiano (1997)

Alesis NanoPiano (1997)
The arrival of Alesis in the mid 1980s, seemingly out of nowhere, had a major impact on the market. Products aimed at studio owners and p...

Rhodes MK-60 Digital Piano

Rhodes MK-60 Digital Piano
In the golden age of analogue synthesis, mimicking a real piano had been an untenable proposition for an electronic keyboard. Manufacturer...
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The Vintage Reissue Story

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Guitar Pickup Calibration

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The Birth of the Relic

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Get Great Tone With Poor Pickups

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Confusing History of Olympic White

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The Classic '80s Yamaha DX Synths

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Telecasters of the Late 1960s

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Free Tonewheel Organ VSTi

The Seductress tonewheel organ VSTi Direct download for this classic tonewheel organ simulator with built-in dual-spin rotor and twin-manual drawbar control - all splittable across a single input keyboard... Download page...

Stratocasters in the 1970s

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