Re: [linux-audio-user] More music

More interesting links for historical context:
http://www.answers.com/topic/tom-dowd?method=8
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/oldtimers/TomDowd.html

ron

--- Paul Winkler <pw_lists@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:08:21AM -0500, Dan Easley
> wrote:
> > On 2/15/06, Brad Fuller <brad@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > > > What's amazing to me is that they didn't have
> access to an 8-track
> > > > until the White Album. Listen to something
> like
> > > > "I Am the Walrus" or "Tomorrow Never Knows"
> and imagine creating that on
> > > > a 4-track.
> > > >
> > > perhaps bouncing was their friend.
> >
> > yeah, I believe they commonly would fill up one
> 4-track, then bounce
> > it to one or two tracks of their other 4-track,
> fill that one up, and
> > do it again. man, i just wasn't made for those
> times.
>
> Yes. You had to be really, really good at creating
> submixes,
> because once you'd comitted to one, you couldn't do
> it over
> without throwing away all your later work.
>
> It helped that these 4-track machines were then
> state-of-the-art
> reel-to-reel devices. If you tried all that
> bouncing on a
> cassette portastudio, it'd sound like utter crap
> real quick.
> All hiss and no treble makes your mix a dull bore.
>
> The other trick the Beatles had up their sleeve was
> one of their engineers invention of automatick
> doubling:
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_double_tracking
>
> Of course, the real pioneer of all this stuff was
> Les Paul.
> He was bouncing eight guitar parts in 1947 on wax
> discs.
> He invented and paid for Ampex to build him an
> eight-track reel to reel
> overdub-capable machine in 1954. Nobody else had
> eight tracks
> until the mid sixties.
>
> --
>
> Paul Winkler
> http://www.slinkp.com
>

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Received on Thu Feb 16 00:15:04 2006