[Frank Stearns]

axolotl writes:

On 10/9/2013 8:57 AM, Frank Stearns wrote:

Not sure which NY studio was being used (the control room appeared to be a sonic
mess, with the back wall not more than 5 feet from the arm rest of the console), but
they were using the 3M digital recorder, 32 tracks, 16 bit, 50 Khz, apparently a
DASH format running at 45 IPS. The thing cost $115K in 1978 US dollars.


The internet is a wonderful thing. The German release of the album says
it was recorded in RCA Studio A (New York, of course). Other records
recorded in Studio A in the same timeframe used a PCM 1610 and, on some
records, a Decca Digital Recording System. First time I have heard of them.

http://www.mancini99.freeserve.co.uk/Decca_1.html

http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?8386-The-Decca-Digital-Audio-Recorder

Very interesting links.

Thanks for finding and posting.

Frank
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