Old magazines and books at archive.org

Mellotron Man · Post by **Mellotron Man** » 28 Jun 2020, 12:01

Since I retired in early July last year, I've been digging around the 'net, trying to find schematics (circuit diagrams if you're a Brit!) for guitar effect units (Phaser, Wah-wah, Sustain, etc.) and I've come across some beauties! I apologise in advance if they've already been mentioned elsewhere on this forum - I have had a look, but you can only go so far back!

Firstly, I found https://worldradiohistory.com/ It's a site that collects English-speaking publications from around the world - Britain, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand plus a few others. From a purely British perspective, they have copies of magazines like Practical Electronics, Everyday Electronics, Elektor, Electronics Today International plus a few others that have Effect Units in them. A word of warning though - quite a few of the .pdf files are poor quality - so poor they are virtually unreadable, especially the text. It's the fault of the contributors, NOT the web-site. I'm trying to see if there are readable versions of the same magazines elsewhere on the 'net.

I used to buy Electronics & Music Maker in the mid 1980's, but it isn't on the above site, surprisingly. However, SOME issues have been converted to web-pages at http://www.muzines.co.uk/mags/emm. It's a magazine dedicated to musicians with an interest in Electronics. They also did interviews with Electronic Musicians, such as the members of Tangerine Dream. 'Muzines' may do other magazines, but I haven't fully investigated its site.

I found http://www.effectsdatabase.com/schematics purely by accident! It has schematics & details of a huge range of commercially-made effects units.

Hope this helps.

ppluis0 · Post by **ppluis0** » 29 Jun 2020, 01:59

Hi Mellotron Man and thanks to share your discover with us !!

Just yesterday I found an FTP with lots of schematics (or circuit diagrams

) http://schems.com/bmampscom/

There are lots of info on FX and most brands of amplifiers.

Enjoy !!!
Jose

Mellotron Man · Post by **Mellotron Man** » 29 Jun 2020, 14:36

That is a superb collection ppluis! If you go back via the 'parent directory', you'll find more.

karul · Post by **karul** » 10 Aug 2020, 17:14

if you're looking for old magazines, try https://archive.org/

e.g. Electronics Australia Magazine, 1999
https://archive.org/details/EA1999

you can download them as epub, pdf, etc.

Electronics Australia
https://archive.org/search.php?query=su ... stralia%22

you can find some books too
https://archive.org/search.php?query=su ... tronics%22

peterc · Post by **peterc** » 10 Aug 2020, 20:56

Excellent, thanks

tonyharker · Post by **tonyharker** » 10 Aug 2020, 22:07

Old Magazines also here https://worldradiohistory.com/index.htm

Bossisboss · Post by **Bossisboss** » 20 Sep 2020, 20:59

Thanks a lot !

Guitargate · Post by **Guitargate** » 02 Feb 2021, 01:35

Wow great resource! Thanks for sharing. there is a mountain of schematics there!

Post by **modman** » 10 Nov 2021, 10:12

There is this terrific French site http://www.retronik.fr/ with a great search engine

Also have found an Italian site, http://www.introni.it/

I don't care much for stuff in Dutch... but was somewhat shocked to find out that Elektor was started in Holland. It started out as Electronica Wereld. Many of these are hosted in internet heaven: https://archive.org/search.php?query=cr ... ter&page=2
Just browsing through the monthly issues chronologically is already a trip.