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0 pointsDrewADesign4mo ago0 comments

Tom Scholz, the guitarist for Boston with a masters in MechE from MIT, built his own effects, and much of his own recording equipment.

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I still remember a very interesting article about him in the Electronic Engineering Times back in 1998: "Boston's Scholz Engineers a Rock Dynasty"

"Wherever there's a microprocessor, there's trouble."

The story of getting their first album made is epic

Link to a recommended write-up?

The guitars on Def Leppard's Hysteria [1987] were supposedly direct recorded using a Rockman.

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0 pointsDrewADesign4mo ago0 comments

Tom Scholz, the guitarist for Boston with a masters in MechE from MIT, built his own effects, and much of his own recording equipment.

I still remember a very interesting article about him in the Electronic Engineering Times back in 1998: "Boston's Scholz Engineers a Rock Dynasty"

"Wherever there's a microprocessor, there's trouble."

The story of getting their first album made is epic

Link to a recommended write-up?

The guitars on Def Leppard's Hysteria [1987] were supposedly direct recorded using a Rockman.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse