LINKS TO WEB INFORMATION AND SITES
Burns Guitars official website
http://www.burnsguitars.com/
Burns Guitar Museum
http://www.burnsguitarmuseum.com/
Denelectro official website
http://www.danelectro.com/
Vintage Guitar Info - Daneletro
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/dano.html
D'Angelico official website
http://www.dangelicoguitars.com/
"D'Angelico Guitars": article by George Gruhn
http://www.gruhn.com/articles/dangelico.html
Vintage Guitar Info - D'Angelico
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/other.html#dangel
Vintage Guitar Info - Dobro
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/dobro.html
Planet Dobro
http://www.mphase.com/planetd2.htm
The Resonator Guitar Website
http://www.resoguit.com/
Gisbon Dobro
http://www.gibson.com/products/oai/dobro/
Vintage Guitar Info - Epiphone
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/epiphone.html
Epiphone official website (Gibson)
http://www.epiphone.com/
Fender official website
http://www.fender.com
Vintage Guitar Info - Fender
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/fender.html
The Stratocaster Appreciation Page
http://members.tripod.com/~AFH/
Fuzzy's Telecaster Page
http://personalweb.sunset.net/~barron/
Fender Mustang Web
http://www.smallclone.com/mustang/
Fender Jaguar / Fender Mustang
http://www.jag-stang.com/jagIndex.shtml
Fender Jaguar and Jazzmaster: The Higher Evolution of Offset-Waist
Guitars
http://www.webrocker.de/jaguar/2004/index.php
Vintage Fender Guitar Gallery
http://wug.physics.uiuc.edu/courses/phys398emi/398emi_fender_guitars.html
Vintage Guitar Info - Gibson
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/gibson.html
Gibson official website
http://www.gibson.com/
George Gruhn
"Gibson's Firebird Line: A '60s Era Radical"
http://www.gruhn.com/articles/firebird.html
Vintage Gibson Guitar Gallery
http://wug.physics.uiuc.edu/courses/phys398emi/398emi_gibson_guitars.html
Eric Clapton's famous Cream-era psychedelic Gibson SG.
Custom painted for him by Dutch art
collective The Fool in 1966, Clapton used it extensively on the LP
Disraeli Gears.
It was later
bought by Todd Rundgren, who sold it at auction in 2000 for
US$150,000.
Vintage Guitar Info
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/martin.html
Gretsch official website
http://www.gretsch.com/
The Gretsch Pages
http://www.gretschpages.com/
George Gruhn
"Gretsch's White Falcon"
http://www.gruhn.com/articles/whitefalcon.html
Guild official website
http://www.guildguitars.com/
Dating Your Guild Guitar
http://www.mrgearhead.com/guild/dating.html
Guild guitar & bass models and descriptions
http://www.fredsmusic.com/guild.html
Hagstrom official website
http://www.albinhagstrom.se/
One of the unsung heroes of guitar making, Harmony was founded in 1892 and for decades they churned out well-made, inexpensive axes and other stringed instruments under their own name, as well as making "home brand" instruments for a variety of companies including the Sears Roebuck mail order empire, who bought the company in 1935.
Many well-known pop and rock players used them, one of the most famous being Ronnie Lane of The Small Faces, who played a Harmony H22 semi-acoustic bass. The Harmony's boomy, almost tuba-like tone is an intrinsic part of the classic sound of their best records, e.g. Here Comes The Nice, Itchycoo Park, Tin Soldier and especially Ogden's Nut Gone Flake. And of course it was Ronnie's trip to the J60 music bar in East London to buy his Harmony bass that led to his fateful meeting with Steve Marriott, so we have much to thank Harmony for!
Harmony Guitar Page
http://www.broadwaymusicco.com/harmony.htm
Unofficial Harmony Guitars Homepage
http://members.aol.com/Rothguitar/Rothguita30.html
Steve's Vintage Hofner Guitar site
http://users.argonet.co.uk/users/steverussell/cont.html
Vintage Guitar Info - Hofner
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/hofner.html
Jansen official website
http://www.jansen.co.nz/history.php
Vintage Guitar Info - Kay
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/other.html#kay
Still a 100% Australian, family-owned company, the Melbourne-based Maton was founded by jazz guitarist Bill May in 1946 and the company has earned international renown for their superb acoustic and electric guitars and basses, which have been played by scores of famous musos from The Easybeats to The Wiggles. George Harrison owned one of their MS500 models, which were introduced in 1957. Harry Vanda is perhaps the best known Australian Maton player of the Sixties, and his famous red Maton Sapphire semi-acoustic 12-string (now in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney) was an integral part of the Easys' sound throughout their career, notably on I'll Make You Happy. Chain's Phil Manning is another well-known user and endorser. More recently, Queens Of The Stone Age guitarist Josh Homme has become a regular user of Maton guitars and now endorses them -- the first and only such endorsement he has accepted, despite offers from the world's biggest luthiers -- and Maton reports that he is having a new model built to his own design.
Maton established itself early on the rock scene in the late Fifties, assisted by Australia's tariff regime, which made imported guitars far more expensive. Maton axes were used by many well-known groups including Col Joye & The Joy Boys. The company also made one of the first sponsorship deals in Australian rock, supplying Melbourne band The Strangers with a complete set of their famous El Toro model guitars and basses while they were working as the house band on The Go!! Show in the mid-Sixties.
The Maton official site has some good information although there appears to be little data on the web at this time that chronicles the company's production between the Fifties and the Seventies.
Maton official website
http://www.maton.com.au/
See also the MILESAGO Maton page for a photo gallery of classic Maton guitars
Vintage Guitar Info - Martin
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/martin.html
C.F. Martin & Co. official website
http://www.mguitar.com/
Vintage Guitar Info - National
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/national.html
National guitars official website
http://www.nationalguitars.com/
Ovation official website
http://www.ovationguitars.com/
Vintage Guitar Info - Rickenbacker
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/rick.html
Rickenbacker official website
http://www.rickenbacker.com/
Bjorn Eriksson's Rickenbacker Page
http://www.rickbeat.com/
The Rickenbacker Page
http://www.the-music-connection.com/ric.htm
Shergold official homepage
http://www.shergold.co.uk/
Vintage Guitar Info - Stromberg
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/other.html#strom
Stromberg Guitars official website
http://www.strombergguitars.com/
The Vox Showroom
http://www.voxshowroom.com/
Buttload of Guitar Links
Very comprehensive list of links for vintage guitars and related stuff
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~meburns/geetar.html
George Gruhn Guitar Articles
http://www.gruhn.com/articles/
Jeff McGuire's History of the Electric Guitar
http://www.angelfire.com/music2/myguitar/ggcov.html
GuitarSite.com
http://www.guitarsite.com/history.htm
History of the Electric Guitar
http://www.riffinteractive.com/expguitar/ElectricGuitarRoots1.htm
HowStuffWorks - How Electric Guitars Work
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/electric-guitar3.htm
Vintage Guitar Gallery
http://wug.physics.uiuc.edu/courses/phys398emi/398emi_guitars.html
Guitar, Bass & Drums
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/1918/
Burns Guitars official website
http://www.burnsguitars.com/
Denelectro official website
http://www.danelectro.com/
Vintage Guitar Info - Daneletro
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/dano.html
Epiphone official website (Gibson)
http://www.epiphone.com/
Vintage guitar Info
Precision Bass
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/fender2.html#pbass
Jazz Bass
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/fender2.html#jbass
Bass VI six-string bass
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/fender2.html#bass6
The Band: Fender VI
http://theband.hiof.no/articles/fender_bass_vi.html
George Gruhn
"1960 Gibson EB-0 Bass"
http://www.gruhn.com/articles/eb0.html
Gibson Basses
http://p219.ezboard.com/fthedudepitfrm5
Vintage Gibson Guitar Gallery
http://wug.physics.uiuc.edu/courses/phys398emi/398emi_gibson_guitars.html
Guild official website
http://www.guildguitars.com/
Dating Your Guild Guitar
http://www.mrgearhead.com/guild/dating.html
Guild guitar & bass models and descriptions
http://www.fredsmusic.com/guild.html
One of the unsung heroes of guitar making, American luthier Harmony was founded in 1892 and for decades they churned out well-made, inexpensive axes and other stringed instruments under their own name, as well as making "home brand" instruments for a variety of companies including the Sears Roebuck mail order empire, who bought the company in 1935.
Many well-known pop and rock players used them, one of the most famous being Ronnie Lane of The Small Faces, who played a Harmony H22 semi-acoustic bass. The H22's boomy, almost tuba-like tone is an intrinsic part of the classic sound of their best records, e.g. Here Comes The Nice, Itchycoo Park, Tin Soldier and especially Ogden's Nut Gone Flake. And of course it was Ronnie's trip to the J60 music bar in East London to buy his Harmony bass that led to his fateful meeting with Steve Marriott, so we have much to thank Harmony for!
Harmony Guitar Page
http://www.broadwaymusicco.com/harmony.htm
Unofficial Harmony Guitars Homepage
http://members.aol.com/Rothguitar/Rothguita30.html
Steve's Vintage Hofner Guitar site - bass guitars
http://www.vintagehofner.co.uk/gallery/gallery2/bass.html
http://www.vintagehofner.co.uk/gallery/gallery2/bas.html
Jansen official website
http://www.jansen.co.nz/history.php
Maton official website
http://www.maton.com.au/
See also the MILESAGO Maton page for a photo gallery of classic Maton guitars
After Fender's groundbreaking Precision Bass and Jazz Bass models, the legendary Rickenbacker 4001 is probably the most popular and sought-after of all electric basses, and certainly one of the most distinctive in both look and sound. The 4001S leaped into public consciousness in 1966-67 when Paul McCartney began regularly using the left-handed model given to him by the company in late 1964. He first played it on record on Rain/Paperback Writer, used it extensively during the Sgt Pepper's / Magical Mystery Tour sessions. Sporting its home-made psychedelic paint job (applied with spray cans by Paul just after the completion of the Sgt Pepper's sessions) it can be seen in many photos and film clips from this period, including I Am The Walrus and Hello Goodbye and the footage of their satellite broadcast performance of of All You Need Is Love. Macca put it aside in '68 but returned to it in the Seventies and used the now sanded-back Ricky extensively on record and on tour with Wings.
The Kinks' Peter Quaife was another early and prominent Ricky convert -- he bought his in 1965, played it on all the group's classic mid-60s recordings and still swears by it. Probably the most famous Rickenbacker bassist of all is Chris Squire of Yes. He bought his famous cream 4001 in 1965 and has played it ever since; according to the his website his was only the fourth 4001 to be brought into the UK -- the first three having been bought by John Entwistle, Peter Quaife and Donovan. Squire's inimitable, thunderous Rickenbacker sound, which made it first major appearances on The Yes Album in 1971, was achieved by splitting the stereo output (4001s come in both mono and stereo models) and feeding the signals to two different amplifiers to achieve the 'brappy' top-end sound, while retaining the earthshaking bottom-end that Rickys are famous for. Although strongly linked to progressive rock, Rickenbackers were also prized by punk and New Wave players because of their powerful and distinctive tone -- well-known New Wave Ricky players include Bruce Foxton of The Jam and Jean-Jacques Burnel of The Stranglers.
Vintage Guitar Info - Rickenbacker
http://www.provide.net/~cfh/rick.html
Rickenbacker official website
http://www.rickenbacker.com/
Bjorn Eriksson's Rickenbacker Page
http://www.rickbeat.com/
The Rickenbacker Page
http://www.the-music-connection.com/ric.htm
The Vox Showroom
http://www.voxshowroom.com/
Electric Bass History
http://www.rodgoelz.com/electricbasshistory.htm
Bass History
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/1918/bass.htm
Weedhopper.org - History of the Electric Bass Guitar
http://www.weedhopper.org/Bass_Guitar_History.asp
Vintage Guitar Gallery
http://wug.physics.uiuc.edu/courses/phys398emi/398emi_guitars.html
Guitar, Bass & Drums
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/1918/
Ludwig official site
http://www.ludwig-drums.com/
Charlie West
"The Story Behind Ringo’s Drums"
http://web2.iadfw.net/gshultz/drumhist.html
How to date 1960s Ludwig Drums
http://www.vintagedrum.com/ludwig_serials.htm
Ludwig Drum Collection at the U.S. National Music Museum
http://www.usd.edu/smm/LudwigCollection.html
Paiste official website
http://www.paiste.com/
Pearl official website
http://www.pearldrum.com/default.asp
Vintage Rogers Drums & Products
http://cgi.linkclub.or.jp/~a2a/rogers.shtml
Zildjian official website
http://www.zildjian.com/
Drumman Utopia
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~c1li/index.htm
Guitar, Bass & Drums
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/1918/
Harmony Central - Drums & Percussion
http://www.harmony-central.com/Drums/
History of the Drum and Drumset
http://www.ajpropercussion.com/dc_hist.html
Not So Modern Drummer
http://www.notsomoderndrummer.com/
The Vintage & Custom Drum Page
http://web2.airmail.net/thompson/vdrum.htm
Hollow Sun - ARP String Ensemble
http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/arp/index.html
Hollow Sun - ARP 2600
http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/arp2600_bass/index.html
Hollow Sun - ARP Odyssey
http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/odyssey/index.html
Synthmuseum.com: ARP
http://www.synthmuseum.com/arp/index.html
Vintage Synth Explorer: VCS3
http://www.vintagesynth.org/misc/vcs3.shtml
120 Years of Electronic Music: EMS Synthesisers 1969-1979
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/ems/index.html
Synthmuseum.com: EMS
http://www.synthmuseum.com/ems/index.html
Farfisa.org
http://www.caffeinatedrecordings.com/web/farfisa/instruments.php
Farfisa Organs
http://home.eol.ca/~voxman/farfisa/farfisa.html
Hollow Sun - Farfisa Organ
http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/farfisa/index.html
Cool Keys Page
http://www.contraplex.demon.co.uk/
Rhodes Rehab
http://www.mothersea.com/rhodes/
Simon's Hall of Electric Pianos
http://members.lycos.co.uk/karenlbeck/epianos.html
Beloved by fans and revered by musicians for its classic sound, despised by roadies for its backbreaking size and weight -- the Hammond is, in my humble opinion, one of the greatest musical instruments ever invented. Originally designed as a church organ, it was popularised in jazz by legendary players such as Fats Waller and Jimmy Smith and gained even wider popularity -- and found its true home -- when taken up by black soul musicians. Booker T. Jones is undoubtedly the most famous and influential Hammond player of all time; through his immortal performances on classics like Booker T. & The MGs Green Onions, Jones was crucial in helping the Hammond cross over into rock, where it was rapidly taken up by leading white players like Steve Winwood, The Small Faces' Ian McLagan and Procul Harum's Gary Brooker, and in Australia by The Groove's Tweed Harris and The Groop's Brian Cadd.
Although commonly considered an organ, the Hammond is (technically speaking) one of the earliest forms of synthesiser, since its sound is produced entirely electronically. It was one of the first instruments to use the system known as subtractive synthesis, in which the organ's tone generator produces a complex signal, rich in overtones, which can then be selectively filtered by the use of tone controls -- the Hammond drawbars. The Hammond's already remarkable sound could also be greatly enhanced by the use of the equally famous Leslie Speaker and by overdriving the signal to produce the searing distorted tone loved by players like Keith Emerson.
Although highly prized, the Hammond's size, weight and cost probably limited its use in Australian pop music for some time, and it's likely that it was not often used on the frantic Australian Sixties dance and disco circuit, where the need to move quickly from gig to gig would have been hampered by the Hammond's bulk.
Hammond-Suzuki official website
http://users.belgacombusiness.net/hammond/def-ult.htm
The Hammond Zone
http://www.hammond-organ.com/
Hammond-Leslie FAQ Index
http://theatreorgans.com/hammond/faq/
Hollow Sun - Hammond B3
http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/b3/index.html
The funky sound of the Hohner electric clavinet was immortalised by Stevie Wonder's on his 1972 classic Superstition. One of its first appearances on record was on The Band's single Up On Cripple Creek, where it was used to great effect by Garth Hudson, although the sound is sometimes mistaken for a jaw harp because Hudson played it thought a wah-wah pedal.
As far as we know, this distinctive keyboard made its first appearances on Australian recording on Jeff St John & Copperwine's 1970 LP Joint Effort -- although it was misspelled as "clarinet" on the back cover credits! Another early and very notable use was on Symptoms, the opening track of Company Caine's 1971 LP A Product Of A Broken Reallity.
The Hohner Clavinet
Resource Homepage
http://www.gti.net/junebug/clavinet/
Classic Keys - The Hohner Clavinet, Pianet and Cembalet
http://www.melmusic.com.au/articles/Clav.html
Cool Keys Page
http://www.contraplex.demon.co.uk/
Although evidently not widely used in Australia, the Hohner piano sound is indelibly associated with one of the greatest Australian recordings of the Sixties, The Loved One by The Loved Ones. Original Loved Ones keyboard player Ian Clyne is thought to have been the first Australian player to use one on a pop recording.
Cool Keys Page
http://www.contraplex.demon.co.uk/
Simon's Hall of Electric Pianos
http://members.lycos.co.uk/karenlbeck/epianos.html
Lowrey official website
http://www.lowrey.com/
Garth Hudson, The Band
(world's greatest Lowrey player)
http://theband.hiof.no/band_members/garth.html
Alongside the Hammond organ, the Mellotron is one of the most remarkable musical instruments of the 20th century. It was in effect the very first sampling keyboard, using tapes of real instruments and voices to produce its classic sounds. One of the very first Mark II models was presented to Princess Margaret, but apparently she drove Lord Snowdon mad with her incessant playing so she reputedly gave it away to her friend Peter Sellers ... although another account claims that it was repossessed because she never paid for it! Other 'celebrity' owners include the late King Hussein of Jordan, and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
The Mellotron's debut in rock could hardly have been more propitious, and it will forever be associated with The Beatles' Strawberry Fields Forever, which used the Mellotron flute sound to such great effect. It was also used extensively on the Rolling Stones' much underrated 1967 LP Their Satanic Majesties Request. Like the Hammond B3, Mellotrons became the essential keyboard instrument of the psychedelic and progressive rock genres and it was a fundamental part of the sound of many famous acts of the period including Pink Floyd, King Crimson, The Moody Blues, Yes and Genesis.
As far as can be ascertained, Sherbet was the first Australian band to acquire one, and it made its first recorded appearance on their 1973 single Casssandra. Like many other such exotic instruments, Mellotrons were rarely seen in Australia, primarily because they were extremely expensive -- the Mellotron Archives site gives the 1973 retail price as US$5200 -- and this was made even higher for local musicians by the punitive import duties that applied to musical instruments at the time. The other major local band of the time band known to have owned one was Sebastian Hardie.
120 Years of Electronic Music: Mellotrons and Chamberlins
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/mellotron/index.html
Mellotron Archives
http://www.mellotron.com/
Streetly Electronics (UK makers of the original Mellotron)
http://www.members.aol.com/tronbros/index.htm
Mellotrons, Chamberlins and their sounds
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/7846/mtron.html
The Ultimate Mellotron Recordings List
(...and you think I'm obsessive?!)
http://freespace.virgin.net/andy.thompson/
J.P. Hovercraft's Mellotron Sample Page
http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/aphex/113/
For a long time the name 'Moog' and the word 'synthesiser' were synonymous and their can be no underestimating Robert Moog's importance in modern music. The Moog modular synth exploded into popular consciousness with the release of the groundbreaking collaboration between Moog and composer-musician Wendy (formerly Walter) Carlos, whose famed 1969 LP Switched On Bach was the first album of music realised entirely on synthesiser to achieve wide popular success.
Because of their high cost, fragility and complexity of operation, the early modular synthesisers were evidently not seen here at all in the '60s and were only rarely used in the early Seventies. Sydney group Tully is reputed to have been the first Australian band to acquire a Moog ca. 1971, and to use it live -- brave souls! It is also believed that Tully's Michael Carlos used the Moog while music director of the stage production of Jesus Christ Superstar. According to major sources, the Ariel 1973 LP A Strange Fantastic Dream (EMI) was the first Australian rock recording to use the Moog.
It wasn't until the early 70s and the advent of the legendary MiniMoog -- the first true performance synthesiser -- that synths began to play a larger part in rock music, but they quickly became a staple of both the prog rock and jazz fusion genres. Their use was limited by the fact that portable synths like the MiniMoog were monophonic (i.e. you could only play one note at a time) and so they tended to be used either for their spacey sound effects, or for solos, a role in which they excelled if used by a skilled practitioner like Herbie Hancock, Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson or Joe Zawinul. Interestingly, the MiniMoog maintained its popularity well into the Eighties and beyond. As electronic keyboards beagn to play an increasing role in recording, the MiniMoog became much sought-after by producers, who prized its unrivalled capacity to produce rich, deep bass notes, and it was and still is often used (or sampled) to provide synth bass on pop and rock recordings.
Roadworthy polyphonic synths (i.e. those capable of playing chords) like the famous Roland Juno 6 and Jupiter 8 didn't appear until the late 1970s. Ironically, just as these polyphonic synths were reaching a peak, with fabulous instruments like the PolyMoog and Sequential Circuits Prophet 10, a tiny Australian company pulled the rug out from under all of them with the groundbreaking Fairlight digital sampler/synthesiser, the first in the world. I still vividly remember seeing it demonstrated at a music show in Sydney for the first time ca. 1980. No-one knew what it was and hardly anyone was interested. By the following year it had been taken up by stars like Fleetwood Mac and Peter Gabriel and you couldn't get near the Fairlight stand.
Even though it cost as much as an average Australian family home at the time, the Fairlight was the way of the future and the digital synths that descended from it turned most of the classic analog synths of the 70s into museum pieces. But in another bitter irony of the music biz, inventors Kim Ryrie and Peter Vogel didn't properly patent their invention, opening the way for an explosion of cheap, portable Asian-made knock-off samplers that stole the market from them (and powered the rise of hip-hop). Within a few years, companies like Casio were making millions and Fairlight was out of business. C'est la guerre!
Moog official website
http://www.moogmusic.com/
Moog Archives
http://www.moogarchives.com/
Hollow Sun - MiniMoog
http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/minimoog/index.html
120 Years: Robert Moog and Moog Synthesiser
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/moog/
The Moog Synthesiser
http://arts.ucsc.edu/EMS/Music/equipment/synthesizers/analog/moog/Moog.html
Synthmuseum.com: Moog
http://www.synthmuseum.com/moog/
Cool Keys Page
http://www.contraplex.demon.co.uk/
Hollow Sun - RMI Electrapiano
http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/rmi/
Simon's Hall of Electric Pianos
http://members.lycos.co.uk/karenlbeck/epianos.html
Hollow Sun - Roland Synths
http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/roland/index.html
Synthmuseum.com
http://www.synthmuseum.com/roland/index.html
Cool Keys Page
http://www.contraplex.demon.co.uk/
Wurlitzer Electric Piano Archive
http://my.stratos.net/~riderz/wurlitzer.html
Simon's Hall of Electric Pianos
http://members.lycos.co.uk/karenlbeck/epianos.html
MORE KEYBOARD AND SYNTH LINKS ...
120 Years of Electronic Music
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/
Combo Organ Heaven
http://www.combo-organ.com/
Harmony Central - Keys & Synths
http://www.harmony-central.com/Synth/
Simon's Hall of Electric Pianos
http://members.lycos.co.uk/karenlbeck/epianos.html
Synthmuseum.com
http://www.synthmuseum.com/index.html
Vintage Keyboard Webring
http://s.webring.com/hub?ring=vintagekeys
incl. Klempf Echolette, Binson Echorec, Watkins Copicat,
Vintage Echo Units
http://homepages.enterprise.net/greenworld/
All The Gear That Made It Happen
http://www.penumbra.co.nz/allthegear.html#tapes
Vintage British Echo Units
http://www.toneheaven.ndirect.co.uk/British%20Echos.htm
Selmer tape echo units
http://users.argonet.co.uk/users/steverussell/gallery/gallery3/gallery6/echo.html
Classic Tape Echoes
http://www.proaudioeurope.com/london/vintage/tape_echo/
Tel-Ray (Morley) tapeless echo and reverb units
http://www.geocities.com/tel_ray/
The Technology of "Oil Can" delays
http://www.geofex.com/Article_Folders/oil_can_delays.htm
Fuzz boxes, flangers, phasers, wah-wah pedals, compressors, etc.
alt.guitar.effects
http://www.usenet-replayer.com/groups/alt.guitar.effects.html
AnalogMan Guitar Effects site
http://www.analogman.com/
Aron's Stompbox Page
http://www.diystompboxes.com/
General Guitar Gadgets
http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/v2/
The Guitar Effects Oriented Website
http://www.geofex.com/
Harmony Central - Effects
http://www.harmony-central.com/Effects/
Hunting the Tone: Vintage vs Modern
http://www.analogman.com/kraft2.htm
Re-examining Vintage Analog Effects
http://emusician.com/ar/emusic_reexamining_vintage_analog/
Retrosound Vintage Guitar Effects
http://www.retrosound.com.au/effects.html
Stompbox Stampede: A User's
Guide to Vintage Effects
http://archive.guitarplayer.com/archive/gear/stampede.shtml
The Stomping Ground: Musitronics,
Mu-Tron, and the Gizmotron
http://www.beitec.com/articles/vintage/vintage1.html
Univox website
Makers of that legendary Hendrix effect, the Univibe
http://www.univox.org/
Vintage Effects
http://www.100megsfree4.com/deltabluesmn/effects.htm
Vintage effects schematics archive
http://www.christianmusicweb.com/effects_schematics.html
Wah-Wah Pedal Article
http://www.analogman.com/kraft.htm
"Unearthing the mysteries of the Leslie Cabinet"
http://theatreorgans.com/hammond/faq/mystery/mystery.html
The Leslie Tone Cabinet
http://theatreorgans.com/hammond/faq/hammond-faq.html#SEC23
Leslie/Hammond Facts & Rumours
http://www.mitatechs.com/leslierumors.html
Harmony Central - Effects
http://www.harmony-central.com/Effects/
AnalogMan Guitar Effects site
http://www.analogman.com/
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