Awhile back I got a small package of cassettes from Jennifer LeDoux, Mike LeDoux’s widow. Before he passed away, Mike had told me that he’d given me all the Optigan-related items he thought he had, but apparently he missed these cassettes. They contain mostly demos and promo spots of various sorts. I finally got around [...]

A flowchart illustrating the timeline of Optigan disc manufacturing.

A telephone memo, for comic relief.

Mike LeDoux’s thoughts on optical disc mastering.

A design change issue from Mike LeDoux.

An index of the contents of the Optigan master reels.

Take a look at these…

View some of the original Optigan patents.

A photo essay documenting the creation of Optigan discs.

Yes and no. All of the original 8 and 16 track masters are gone, but fortunately Mike held on to the 1/4″ stereo mix-down masters. These are probably the most useful tapes to have anyway. I am the current legal owner of these tapes, and have copyrighted the material contained on them. All 40-odd hours [...]