RADD can currently digitize audio from audio cassettes, microcassettes, and vinyl records (33 and 45 rpm; if we run into 78s we’ll have to buy more equipment). We have a reel-to-reel player awaiting cleaning and overhaul also. The playback equipment is nothing special, though microcassette recorders are starting to be Read more…
RADD is a complicated system. It teems with cables, cords, dongles, boxes, and other miscellanea. After a point, putting a hand on the correct cable becomes all but impossible without labeling. We would not have expected this, but an ordinary label maker has turned out to be one of RADD’s Read more…
RADD’s first major project serves the Washington County Historical Society in West Bend, Wisconsin. The prize of the collection, in my opinion, is this recording of the West Bend High School Concert Band: Much of the rest comes from the West Bend Corporation, longtime manufacturer of household gadgetry. The sales Read more…
We were thrilled to have RADD chronicled as part of Isthmus‘s “Garbage Issue.” A lot of RADD’s parts and pieces are indeed donations or reclamations of equipment that would otherwise have ended up in a dumpster, or worse, as toxic waste shipped overseas. Isthmus reporter Allison Geyer did a lovely Read more…