[Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!]

On Jul 13, 8:46 pm, "Soundhaspriority" wrote:
"Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote in glegroups.com... On Jul 13, 6:36 pm, Jenn wrote:
Did anyone else catch the program about him on PBS this week? Besides
the obvious interest to guitarists and other music lovers, the audio
content was highly interesting as well, as he basically invented "sound
on sound" recording and was innovative on other recording issues.

I have an old Radio-Electronics magazine with him on the cover which
talks about his and Mary Ford's home workshop/studio and some of the
things he was working on at that time. It's interesting.

He invented the eight-track recorder.

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I used to be the repairman for one of those. The musician owner loved it
like the family dog.

The amount of music recorded with eight or less tracks is amazing.
Probably the vast majority of music in the 1960s, and I would guess
some studios had eight-track well into the 1970s.

Didn't the Beatles use two four-track recorders?