Steve at age 16 with his multi-keyboard setup in Coleman Alberta: Hammond X5 organ and 760 Leslie, Roland EP-30 Electric Piano, Roland SH-2000 synthesizer (not in picture), Peavey Roadmaster Amp ,and Roland RE-201 Space Echo.
Steve at age 19 in Coleman Alberta, after finishing his studies at Berklee College of Music, jamming with his nephews Brian (on drums) and Rob (singing), and a neighborhood friend. Steve used this four-track Teac A-3440S he bought in Boston to begin recording his first albums.
Steve Kuban (age 22) producing one of his early 24-track albums at Roundtable Productions in Edmonton
Steve playing the 9' Yamaha grand piano at Roundtable Productions in Edmonton Alberta, recording "Just Another Man" (from his first Christian album "Especially For Mom" at age 21)
Steve Kuban (age 22) producing songs for one of his early albums at Roundtable Productions, using a Studer A-800 2-inch 24-track recorder.
Steve Kuban (age 22) in the TV audio control room at Central Pentecostal Tabernacle in Edmonton Alberta. The televised nation-wide church services often had full choir and orchestra requiring 48 or more channels, so Steve used Central's 32-channel Soundcraft and 16-channel Kelsey mixing boards. But audio mixes "on the fly" for a nation-wide TV show were especially difficult, allowing no second-chances (see Steve pulling his hair out)...so to alleviate the headache and create more professional audio, Steve built this separate isolated TV audio control room (photo taken as the room was still being built) and brought in several pieces of his own equipment, a Tascam 80-8 reel-to-reel multitrack recorder, Tascam Model 3 mixing board for sub-bussing, a Harmon Kardon professional cassette deck and Roland RE-201 Space Echo. (Ah, those were the days!)Steve standing at his favorite piano, the 9' Baldwin Grand at Central Tabernacle in Edmonton Alberta, at age 22. Steve loved the sound of this piano so much (even more than the 9-foot Yamaha at Roundtable) that he decided to work at the Shaw Piano and Organ Center in Edmonton, before going into full-time ministry. (To take this photo, Steve used a special camera that enabled him to pose in two different halves of the same photo, which was revolutionary technology many years before PhotoShop.)
Steve Kuban at age 25 with recording engineer and friend Brad Werstiuk (who helped engineer several of Steve's albums 1985-1988) producing "Worship in Spirit and Truth" in the recording studio Steve designed and built at Central Tabernacle in Edmonton Alberta. Equipment included Steve's Fostex 16-track digital recorder, Rhodes Chroma keyboard (not in photo), and Central's 4-track Akai deck and Sony 2-track mastering deck. (Steve's Chroma was a limited-edition collector's item that 35 years later in 2020 still sells for up to $9,000 USD.) Ah, those were the days!