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Recordingography >>FX firsts

  • First Use of Analog Tape in Professional Audio

  • First Digital Pitch Shifter

  • Sound and Vision

  • Shure Unidyne

  • First Distortion Pedal

  • (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

  • Intruder

  • Columbia LP Record

  • First Professional Portable Recorder

  • First Plate Reverb

  • First Equalizer

  • Confess

  • The Big Hurt

  • Israel in Egypt


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