"maxdm" wrote in message
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(Mike Rivers) wrote in message
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In article writes:
The trouble with "what sounds good", is that everyone has a
different
opinion.
Once you know that, you know the secret to great audio.
There is something to be said for an audio path that makes the
listener feel as if he is in the personal company of the artist/s.
this of course implies that the musicians at hand are artists in the
true sense and can move hearts and illuminate minds. Not many around
today, but..
In this case the best audio path is big ribbon/condenser mikes with
simple low feedback extra-high quality tube based audio with analog
tape recorders (big tape / few tracks)
wasn't it about 1975 that 24 track 2" machines began to outweigh 16
track 2" machines number-wise in studios?
I think your timing is a bit off. 16 track was king in the early-mid-70's.
The 24 trackers came in the late '70's and were King by 1980. But your
perception that some of the best pop and jazz music came out of that era is
correct...engineers still had to know enough to be able to record a group
playing live in the studio, and the group itself had to be acomplished
enough to record together.