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How about something like a Myspace music player on the product pages, with a playlist with all the files that include the product? May be too much flash for the new site, but just an idea.
A flash-based music player would be better, but I personally prefer just links to the MP3s. For starters there could be an audio page that would have HTML indexes for each pedal, and those indexes would be linked at the pedals’ page. Quite an easy way to get the clips available again until we don’t reach a more conclusive form.
One way to approach the issue would be to proceed step-by-step, releasing Limited Edition EHX CDs of historic audio demos for sale, with extracts of the clips available on the website. It may take a while but at least it could get off to a start and show what interest there is out there before working on the whole archive at once.
If you look at musiciansfriend, they have a dead simple way of doing this. They just list the sound clips for download (the user can always pick “open” and have it playing in a temporary file) with a brief description.
Each pedal’s page could just have a little list of audio clips on the right hand portion underneath the links for the user manual, et al. It could be as simple as “Organ Sounds” or “Dan Miller – Organ Sounds.”
Another approach could be merging related sound clips into one mp3 file and playing it along with a youtube video of say, a static product or artist image. That way the content could still be video (and searchable on youtube), but the audio would be there too. Like say, a youtube video for the Bass Micro Synthesizer from the old site could have a slideshow-esque presentation of a Bass Micro Synthesizer, a picture of the person(s) who played the demos, while their clips play with short pauses in between. It could be no more complex than this guy’s video: