tubed kit amplifier. (It can be purchased preassembled for a $375 premium. A clear top plate is included in this cost, and is a $35 kit option.) Lundahl amorphous-core output transformers are combined with 12BH7A small-signal tubes and 300B or 2A3 output tubes, both wired without cat...
11. 'Beatles for Sale' (1964) Tasked with recording their fourth album in a little more than a year, the Beatlemania-battered quartet quickly shuttled to the studio for a loose set of covers, tossed-off originals and a few gems. Success was taking its toll on the group by now, and t...
" As for its performance with CDs, he wrote, "the Mytek let my mind rise and then look down on the musical stream, to observe the matrix of its notes and silences." Overall, he praised the "uniquelynon-digital"–sounding Mytek Manhattan II for "[reproducing] recordings in a manner tha...
Disney Hyperionturns up the amp forWe Will Rock Our Classmatesby Ryan T. Higgins, following Penelope the dinosaur who embraces her inner rock star;The Tower of Neroby Rick Riordan, the fifth and final volume of the Trials of Apollo series;Willa of Dark Hollowby Robert Beatty, in which youn...
martin braham was one of the better guitarists in the history of the shifty fall line-up. in fact, he was responsible for the arrangement of the music on that album. the keyboard noodling - i always felt - almost makes the album. it adds a really eerie feel and really compliments all...