Technology That Changed Recording History

[DM60]

I think this is a pretty good topic for the board.

 

[dogooder]

Technology? Find the first man who put the barb on the hook intentionally.

 

[JAPOV]

Begin the day with a friendly voice
A companion, unobtrusive
Plays that song that's so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning mood
Off on your way, hit the open road
There is magic at your fingers
For the spirit ever lingers
Undemanding contact in your happy solitude
Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antennas bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free
All this machinery making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty
Yeah, your honesty
One likes to believe in the freedom of music
But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity, yeah
Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antennas bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free
For the words of the profits
Were written on the studio wall
Concert hall
Echoes with the sounds of salesmen

 

[Sky Blue Lou]

Multi-tracking. Thank you Les Paul and Frank Zappa.

 

[leddy]

Reading about the contributions of Alan Blumlein is always pretty fascinating. He’s basically the father of stereo sound reproduction.

 

[grimtraveller]

Multi-tracking. Thank you Les Paul

This more than anything changed recording history. It unchained the imagination and showed ordinary people that they could make more resounding stuff than any classical composer ever did.

 

[Seeker of Rock]

I try not to turn my nose up at tech but I absolutely will take an anolog board and production chain to ITB, likely because it’s what I learned on and know and have never been able to bridge that scroll screen manipulating of something that I love to twist knobs or move faders real time. And I work in AutoCAD, and Adobe and MS Office all day every day and bridged the hand graphics to digital in the ‘90s, just never gelled with the audio side probably because I don’t do it for a living and don’t have to, IDK.

 

[Seeker of Rock]

So yeah, this thread is like Mother’s Milk to me.

 

[Seeker of Rock]

I still print like an architect. Reason why in college lettering was one of the first year courses? Before digital drawings and print architects and engineers would be in different offices and have several different entry level graduates and seniors alike working on the same drawing set for a project. In a drawing package, everything should be uniformly legible. You can’t really have three interns, two entry level, a project manger and a senior associate working on a drawing set using different fonts and graphics and writing styles, then package it with the survey and engineering firm’s set and be graphically cohesive from one sheet and discipline to the other, so that’s why. Not sure if they still teach those lettering lessons since they are obsolete, but a shame if they dont

 

[Seeker of Rock]

I still dabble in hand graphics just so I don’t lose the skill.

 

[Seeker of Rock]

Oops, OT. But I still love the art and process of analog and its early formations/development in audio

 

[RFR]

I think this is a pretty good topic for the board.

Very good topic indeed