When High Fidelity Was New

The Studio as Instrument

Record Boom: The Record Industry, Broadcasting Studios, and Recording Studios

Decca Records

Music: 35-cent Records - TIME

More Decca

The Record Book

V-Discs

V-Disc recordings | RSA

The Modern Broadcast Studio: NBC Radio City and CBS

CBS Studios

Recording Studios: RCA Victor, Decca, Columbia, Capitol

RCA Victor

Western Electric 22C console

And finally: (322) CLASSIC BROADCAST MICROPHONES - YouTube - a long documentary demonstrating many microphones used in radio broadcast including the RCA 77

Decca Records

Capitol

Temples, Churches, and Dance Halls: The Big “Natural” Sound

Pythian Temple

Recordings places’ trip#10 Pythian

Liederkranz Hall

Recorded at Liederkranz Hall (1941)

Columbia Studios at 30th Street

Friends of the 30th Street Studio "The Church"

Glenn Gould at 30th Street

Mimicking the Hall: Spring Reverb, “Echo” Chambers, EMT Plates

Custom echo chambers

Slap-back Echo

“Music was not what was played . . . but rather what people heard”: Adventures in Microphoning