The Analog Audio Design TP-1000 Reel-to-Reel Deck will hit your wallet hard at $20,000 and is playback only. With that in mind, Analog Audio Design, has been getting a lot of attention for its $20,000 ...

In September 1961, a 20-year-old folk singer named Bob Dylan had no apartment and no record deal. He was, more or less, a complete unknown. One fateful gig at the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village ...

Through the passage of time, there was one format that could rival the sound quality of any other, the analog reel-to-reel tape recorder, and this is her story.

The reel-to-reel tape is from a Gaslight Cafe show in Greenwich Village in 1961, when Dylan was playing to audiences you could count in a glance or two. By Colin Moynihan On Sept. 6, 1961, a ...

"It [the collection was consigned by the artist Alan Sondheim who taught at RISD in the early 1970s, and the work was by James Lee Byers," he said. "The museum wanted that, and thrown in with this lot ...

In March, Rob Frith discovered that a reel-to-reel tape he owned that was labelled “Beatles demo” was just that: a high-quality copy of the Beatles’ legendary unreleased demonstration recording for ...

[Juan Nicola] has taken inspiration from the musician hackers of old and re-purposed a reel-to-reel tape recorder into a tape-echo for his guitar with a built-in valve amplifier (video in Spanish).

To me, standards and original music are complementary, and I've worked hard to connect both sides of my playing. Now I have a deeper understanding of how I want to play the saxophone, and play those ...