A rare Mariah Carey demo tape is going up for auction next month, through the music magazine and merch site, Wax Poetics. The cassette tape is believed to be one of Carey’s original demos, personally ...

If you’ve ever looked into how artists from the 1960s made their music, you’ll learn about the many inventive ways in which the tape recorder enabled new effects. One of the simplest of those is the ...

[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).

Strymon has expanded its range of delay pedals with the EC-1, a state-of-the-art digital stompbox that recreates the vintage mojo of a tube-driven tape echo unit. The EC-1 is based on a vintage ...