Recording 50's style

Lots of tubes and transistors. The service techs must be treated like kings to keep it operating. Knowledge of that stuff is slowly disappearing.

Here is another example, but of the '60s & '70s style in the modern New York. It's the Daptone analog studio tour. The home of Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Charles Bradley, The Budos Band and others. 

My favorite place in Helsinki is the Timmion studio. I admire these guys for what they are doing! This is a true independent label, here is something from the last LP. Everything recorded in Finland (100% analog). 

I have a friend with a small pro studio, and his gear (2" reel-to-reel 16/24 trk. recorder, vintage and contemporary mics, Altec A7 monitors) includes tube and transistor stuff from the 1950's to the present. Mics, mic pre-amps, limiters, compressors, recorder electronics, mixing console, etc. Guess which technology requires the most upkeep. Not the tubes, the transistors.