Year |
Reel to reel |
Reel to reel |
Mikes, Mixers, Headphones |
History |
1980
ADS |
Otari
MX50 |
Pioneer
RT-901
Pioneer
RT-909 $900
Teac
A-3300 $795
Teac
A-3440 $1,199
Teac
80-8 $3,500
Teac
VS-88 80-8 Variable speed control
Teac
144 PortaStudio
Technics
RS-1500 $2300
Technics
RS-1506 $2500 |
Shure
516 EQ
Shure
556 |
3M, Mitsubishi, Sony and Studer each introduces a multitrack digital recorder.
Eight Americans killed in ill-fated attempt to rescue hostages held by Iranian militants.
Mt. St. Helens erupted
Ronald Reagan elected - Iranian hostages freed after inauguration
John Lennon shot
First LASIK surgery patent - IBM
|
1981
ADS |
MTV |
Pioneer
RT-901
Pioneer
RT-909 $900
Teac
144 PortaStudio
Teac
A-3300 $795
Teac
A-3440 $1,199
Teac
80-8 $3,500
Technics
RS-1500 $1450
Technics
RS-1506 $1850 |
Shure
516 EQ
Shure
556 |
Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc (CD).
Pres. Reagan & James Brady shot
space shuttle Columbia
IBM personal computer
air traffic controllers strike
Sandra Day O'Connor first woman on U.S. Supreme Court.
Bob Marley dies
Harry Chapin dies
|
1982
ADS |
Compact Disc |
Otari
MX5050 BQII $2,995
Pioneer
RT-909 $900
ReVox
B77 $2199
Teac
A-3300 $795
Teac
A-3440 $1,199
Teac
80-8 $3,500
Teac 85-16
Technics
RS-1500 $1450
Technics
RS-1506 $1850
Technics
RS-1520 $1800
Technics
RS-1700 $1995 |
Shure
516 EQ
Teac
Model 16 |
Sony releases the first CD player, the Model CDP-101.
Equal Rights Amendment was defeated
AIDS epidemic
First permanent artificial heart |
1983
ADS |
|
Akai
GX-636 $1,075
Akai
GX-77 $795
Otari
MX5050 BQII $2,995
Pioneer
RT-909 $900
Tandberg
20A $1,300
Teac
A-3300 $795
Teac
A-3440 $1,199
Tascam 38 & 58
Teac X-3 $595
Technics
RS-1500 $1450
Technics
RS-1506 $1850
Technics
RS-1520 $1800
Technics
RS-1700 $1995
Uher SG-631 $1,300 |
Shure
516 EQ |
Fiber optic for telephone
Sally Ride first woman in space
South Korean passenger jet shot down by soviets
Lebanon Marine bombing
Grenada
Karen Carpenter dies |
1984
ADS |
|
Otari
MX5050 BQI $2,995
Technics
RS-1500 $1450
Technics
RS-1506 $1850
Technics
RS-1520 $1800
Technics
RS-1700 $1995 |
|
Apple launches first Mac computer
regional companies took over local telephone service from AT&T
space shuttle Challenger- two astronauts became first humans to fly free of a spacecraft
Agent Orange
Reagan reelected
Marvin Gaye dies
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1985
ADS |
|
Otari
MX5050 BQII
$2,995
Tascam 388 |
|
Philadelphia police bombed MOVE anarchists
TWA jet was seized by terrorists after takeoff from Athens
Live Aid concert
Palestinian hijackers seized Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro
General Electric buys RCA Corp $6.28 bil
|
1986
ADS |
|
Otari
MX5050 BQII
$2,995 |
|
first digital consoles
R-DAT recorders are introduced in Japan.
first Martin Luther King Jr. Day observed
space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff
Statue of Liberty celebrations
Iran-contra scandal |
1987
ADS |
|
Otari
MX5050 BQII
$2,995
Tascam MS-16, ATR-80/24 |
|
Digidesign markets "Sound Tools," a Macintosh-based digital workstation using DAT as its source and storage medium.
first US trillion-dollar budget
AIDS drug AZT approved
Immigration amnesty
Iraqi missile killed 37 sailors on the frigate USS Stark
200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution signing
Wall Street crashed
Reagan and Gorbachev sign pact to dismantle all 1,752 U.S. and 859 Soviet missiles |
1988
ADS |
|
Fostex
20 $999
Fostex A2 $2450
Otari
MX5050 BQII $2,995
ReVox
B77 $1,650
Tascam 22-2 $795
Tascam 32 $1195
Tascam 42B $1995
Teac X-2000-M $1495
Teac X-300 $795
Tascam 1/2" 16 track MS-16
Tascam digital 24 track introduced
ATR-80/24 |
|
Dr. Koop says cigarettes addictive
Medicare benefits extended
worst US drought in over 50 years
Missile from U.S. Navy warship Vincennes mistakenly strikes a commercial Iranian airliner, July 3, killing all 290
GH Bush elected
Pan Am Flight 103 Lockerbie, Scotland
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1989
ADS |
|
Otari
MX5050 BQII
$2,995
ReVox
B77 $1,650 |
|
Exxon Valdez
Oliver North convicted
rescue of savings and loan industry
Colin Powell chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Pete Rose banned
Hurricane Hugo
earthquake San Francisco Bay area
Manuel Noriega captured |
Year |
Reel to reel |
Reel to reel |
Mikes, Mixers, Headphones |
History |
1990
ADS |
|
Fostex
R8 $2,100
Nagra 4-2,E,T-Audio
Otari
MX5050 BQII $2,995
Otari
MX-50 $1,695
ReVox
B77 $1,650
Tascam 22-2 $799
Tascam 32 $1199
Tascam 22-2 $1099
Tascam 42-B $2299
Teac X-300 $799
Tascam MSR-24 $13,999 - 1" 24 track
|
|
Dolby proposes a 5-channel surround-sound scheme for home theater systems.
Michael Milkin guilty
Americans With Disabilities Act
Kuwait invaded by Iraq
Clean Air Act strengthened
Stevie Ray Vaughn died |
1991
ADS |
|
Fostex
R8 $2000
Fostex G-16 $8,995
Tascam DA-800/24 (Panasonic & Sony joined with Tascam to develop 24 digital & 2 analog track recorder) |
|
Alesis unveils the ADAT, the first "affordable" digital multitrack recorder.
Apple debuts the "QuickTime" multimedia format.
Ampex introduces 499 mastering tape
Persian Gulf War
Clarence Thomas
Charles Keating
|
1992
ADS |
|
Fostex
R8 $2000 |
|
The Nagra D is introduced as a self-contained battery-operated field recorder using Nagra's own 4-channel 24-bit open-reel format.
TWA bankrupt
Los Angeles riots after 4 white police officer acquitted of beating Rodney King
Hurricane Andrew
Ruby Ridge
Bill Clinton defeats Ross Perot
US troops in Somalia |
1993
ADS |
|
|
|
Mackie unveils the first "affordable" 8-bus analog console.
World Trade Center bombing
Branch Davidian compound
The Great Flood of 1993
33 major U.S. military bases closed
don't ask, don't tell
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Brady Bill
Frank Zappa died |
1994
ADS
1994 to present |
|
|
|
Yamaha unveils the ProMix 01, the first "affordable" digital multitrack console.
North American Free Trade Agreement
Los Angeles earthquake
Whitewater affair
Byron De La Beckwith convicted of Medgar Evers murder
Aldrich Ames charged with spying
baseball players on strike
Kurt Cobain died |
|
|
|
|
Iomega debuts high-capacity "Jaz" and "Zip" drives, useful as removable storage media for hard-disk recording.
Republicans' “Contract With America,”
$20 bil loan to help Mexico
Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing
Atlantis made the first in a series of dockings with Russian space station Mir
Scott O'Grady F-16 shot down
O. J. Simpson found not guilty
Million Man March
55-mile-per-hour speed limit repealed
Dean Martin died
Jerry Garcia died
Selena died |
1996 |
|
|
|
Record labels begin to add multimedia files to new releases, calling them "enhanced CDs."
START II treaty
Cuban jets shot down 2 civilian planes
James and Susan McDougal convicted Whitewater
Atlanta Olympics bombing
Clinton reelected |
1997 |
|
|
|
DVD videodiscs and players are introduced. An audio version with 6-channel surround sound is expected to eventually supplant the CD as the chosen playback medium in the home.
Bombs abortion clinics Tulsa
Madeleine Albright first woman to head State Dept.
Heaven's Gate religious cult found dead
Timothy McVeigh & Terry Nichols convicted
Dow Jones fell 554.26
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef and Eyad Ismoil Yousef convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center
John Denver died |
1998 |
|
|
|
Monica Lewinsky
Theodore Kaczynski, the “Unabomber,” arrested
Clinton announced a budget surplus of $70 billion for fiscal year 1998, the first since 1969
Terrorist bomb U.S. embassies in Kenya, and Tanzania
John Glenn returns to space in shuttle Discovery
tobacco companies in settlement with 46 states
Frank Sinatra died
Tammy Wynette died |
1999 |
|
|
|
Clinton acquitted in impeachment trial
Dr. Jack Kevorkian sentenced to 10-25 years in prison
Matthew Shepard beaten - 2 convicted
Columbine High School
John F. Kennedy Jr. dies in private plane rash
Dusty Springfield died |
Year |
Reel to reel |
Reel to reel |
Mikes, Mixers, Headphones |
History |
2000 |
|
|
|
Y2K
America Online buys Time Warner
human genome
Elián González
Tiger Woods youngest to win all 4 of golf's majors
USS Cole
RU-486
George W. Bush beats Gore in contested Fl ballot for president
Concorde Air France crashes at Charles de Gaulle airport |
2001 |
|
|
|
Timothy McVeigh executed
Chandra Levy - Gary Condit
9/11 World Trade Center
U.S. and Britain campaign against Afghan-based terrorist organization al-Qaeda and the country's ruling Taliban militia
anthrax mailings
Taliban surrendered Kabul
Enron
campaign-finance
Antiballistic Missile Treaty
George Harrison died |
2002 |
|
|
|
Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters captured in Afghanistan were flown to a U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay
Bush - Iran, Iraq, and North Korea part of an “axis of evil”
campaign-finance reform bill
World Trade Center cleanup ends
Pennsylvania coal mine
Richard Reid explosives in shoes
Jimmy Carter - Nobel Peace Prize
Congress gives Bush funding for Iraq war
Washington area sniper
Homeland Security created |
2003 |
|
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|
Columbia broke apart in space
US Military close to Bagdad
$87.5 bil approved to re-build Iraq infrastructure
Supreme Court upheld an affirmative action program
Southern CA forest fires
U.S. soldiers kill 2 of Saddam Hussein sons
50 million without power OH, Northeast & Canada
Roman Catholic sexual abuse
Saddam Hussein was captured
mad-cow disease
wardrobe malfunction
Concorde has completed its last commercial passenger flight |
2004
|
Tascam 2488 Portastudio |
|
|
Martha Stewart convicted
National World War II Memorial
Ronald Reagan died
9/11 Commission Report
Lance Armstrong won Tour de France 6th consecutive year
GW Bush re-elected
Tsunami |
2005 |
|
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Terri Schiavo
Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon
Apple Computer switches to Intel CPUs
Michael Jackson found not guilty on all 10 counts during his child molestation trial.
Astronomers discover 10th planet
Hurricane Rita
Hurricane Katrina |
2006 |
|
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|
Pluto is no longer a planet
Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people, sinks in the Red Sea
Blu-ray Disc format is released in the United States
Warren Buffett donates over US$30 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Mumbai, India commuter train attacks
Fidel Castro temporarily relinquishes power to his brother Raúl before surgery
Liquids and gels are banned from checked and carry-on baggage
Goggle buys YouTube for USD $1.65 billion
Saddam Hussein and 2 of his senior allies are sentenced to death by hanging
PlayStation 3 is released in North America
Wii is released in North America |
2007 |
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Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Apple Inc. introduces the iPhone
Virginia Tech massacre
Live Earth Concerts are held throughout 9 major cities around the world
Minneapolis IH35 bridge collapses |
2008
|
Harmon Int'l |
|
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price of petroleum hits $100 per barrel for the first time
markets around the world plunge amid growing fears of a U.S. recession
Tornados kill 58 in the Southern US
Fidel Castro announces his resignation
Pirates hijack cargo ships off the coast of Somalia
Hurricane Ike
Metrolink train crash LA
Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States
Terrorist attacks in Mumbai
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2009
|
Tascam DP004 |
|
|
US Airways Flight 1549 lands in the Hudson River, NY
WHO concerned at the spread of influenza from Mexico
Michael Jackson dies in LA
H1N1 influenza
|
2010
|
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The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake
The February 2010 Chilean earthquake occurred off the coast of the Maule Region of Chile on February 27, 2010
health care overhaul
Census
Toyota speeds out of control
33 miners rescued in Chile
April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit experienced a large explosion and fire |
2011 |
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Arab Spring
9.1-magnitude earthquake & Tsunami Northern Japan
Two billion people[21] watch the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London
Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, has been killed during an American military operation in Pakistan |
2012 |
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Newtown mass shooting
Superstorm Sandy
Obamacare
Barack Obama wins 2nd term election
Lybia & Syria |
2013
MISC |
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Boston marathon bombing
Pope Francis
Affordable Care Act |
2014 |
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Ebola Outbreak
Malaysia Air disasters
Rise of ISIS
US Cuba relations restored
Ukraine
Robin Williams passing |
2015 |
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Paris attacks
Crazy politics |
2016 |
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Crazier politics |
2017 |
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Crazier politics |
2018 |
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Crazier politics |
2019 |
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Crazier politics |
2020 |
Tascam Model 12 |
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Crazier politics coupled with pandemic |
2024 |
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Crazist politics |