Band/Song titles that are just references to recording studio/equipment minutiae

1982 and Daniel Ash is recording the first single by his new project, he looks over at a stack of 2 inch reel to reel boxes and sees the words 'tones on tail'.

Similarly Beck, looking for a title for that throwaway track during the sessions for Mutations takes note of a strip of tape stuck on the studio phone that says 'runners: dial zero'

Superfuzz Bigmuff

Jacket Made In Canada (Arcwelder)

Led Zeppelin - Four Sticks

is Califone too obvious?

Not at all

Pussy Galore "SM57"

A bunch of Stereolab songs (wow and flutter, captain easychord, etc)

steppenwolf, "hodge, podge, strained through a leslie"

"Check My Machine" - Paul McCartney (first thing he recorded on the reel to reel that he made McCartney II on)

basically every post-comeback aphex twin track

The KLF - "3 A.M. Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.)" <- SSL being a brand of mixing consoles.

hahah I didn't know that

Polysics have an album called "A.S.D.R.M." of which the first four letters stand for Attack Sustain Delay Release

The Aural Exciters

LFO

http://img.audiofanzine.com/images/u/product/normal/sw-amplification-echo-dek-67402.jpg

Sunn O)))

Beefheart, "Golden Birdies"

And the panataloon duck white goose neck quacked
Webcor, Webcor

D-Nice "The TR808 Is Comin"

the lyrics to can's 'all gates open' are partially about noise gates on vocal mics

"Sequential Circuits" - Panda Bear

http://www.dubsounds.com/image_files/FR-6-BIG.jpg

fatboy slim, 'everybody needs a 303'

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51pSSy5VKLL.jpg

The Tragically Hip and Super Furry Animals both having albums called Phantom Power.

this doesn't really count but McCartney's 'Memory Almost Full' came from a message his iPod or Blackberry displayed

Blur - Optigan 1

Sunn O)))

oops rushomancy already covered them

Sublime - Had A DAT

808 state

we've got a fuzzbox and we're gonna use it

delay tactics

Deep Purple - Machine Head

hahah I didn't know that

Polysics have an album called "A.S.D.R.M." of which the first four letters stand for Attack Sustain Delay Release

― frogbs, Tuesday, January 31, 2017 11:54 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also ... Polysics/Korg Polysix of course

george harrison "wah-wah"

Mono/Poly

The Grid, 456. (It's a brand of audiotape used in studios.)
Synergy, Sequencer.

Terry Riley - Songs for the Ten Voices of the Two Prophets.

Captain Obviousing but
http://i.imgur.com/q7PhhUe.png

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/279/MI0002279950.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Redd Kross: Phaseshifter

Shellac - 1000 Hurts is a play on 1000 Hz reference tone iirc

mission of burma - tremelo

Germs "Lexicon Devil"

hahah I didn't know that

Polysics have an album called "A.S.D.R.M." of which the first four letters stand for Attack Sustain Delay Release

― frogbs, Tuesday, January 31, 2017 4:54 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*Decay
sorry to nitpick, but synth programming is kind of A Thing for me

The Who, "Premier Drums"
https://youtu.be/4Te4A9HXBI0

"Rotosound Strings"
https://youtu.be/EHTT578wdfM

There are plenty of titles based on recording studio in-jokes too - Inspiral Carpets' LP "Devil Hopping" was apparently making fun of the way their producer said "developing"

Ian Pooley - "Chord Memory"

R.E.M. - E-Bow the Letter

MC5 - "Black To Comm"