History Question about the 80's

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Hi people...
I need to know if any of you can tell me what improvements were made in recording during the 80's, (equipements, techniques...) and in production and songwriting (Within the Rock-Pop enviroment)
I know some of you guys have the Answer...
c'mon...don't be shy...you are not THAT young...

Peace...

PC
 
Didn't CD's and digital audio first hit the mainstream in the 80's?
 
cd's were iinvented in 1982... the reason they are (were) 74 minutes long is because a sony/phillips officials wife wanted the new format to contain the whole of beethovens ninth withoput interuption...the digital recording format was actually quite popular in many high budget studios by the late seventies.....ok back to the question....... one important note is in that the first song to hit no#1 using a sampled drum track was recorded in the eighties... i'm not one hundred percent on what it was but i think it was "frankie goes to hollywood" the used a bonham sample on relax (i think) now that was a pretty big step in the direction of todays popular music... then again i could be totally wrong, but for some reason this piece of information sticks clear in my mind... i'd research that if i were you!

hey are we doing your homework for you? hehehe i mean this doesn't really sound like a general interest topic! then again i could be wrong

hope this was helpful

dr. colossus
 
I'm not sure when the following were invented but they came into their own during the 80's.

Alternate synth trigguring devices such as guitar sythns and drum pads.

DX synth based sounds. (First decent non-analog synths)

Work Stations.

Cassette multi-trackers.

Digital Effects (especially for guitarists and also especially in a "rack mount" design.)

Midi, Sequencers, Samplers and Drum Machines. Yes they were around in the 70's but they didn't get much attention till the 80's.

Digital Recording

The tape size and speeds of multi-track reel to reel machines got smaller for the budget studios. The Fostex A8 comes to mind.

Smpte time code (I think.)

The ability to store midi modulated frequencies onto cassette tape. I know this was invented much earlier but no one used it much in the music field for midi to any large degree until the 80's when we suddenly got this proliferation of drum machines and sequencers on the market.

Dolby C and later A.

Electronic transports for cassette units.

Direct Drive motors came into vogue on both cassette decks and turn tables.

Also better tape formulations for cassettes and reel to reel started taking off.

PZM mics

Integrated multi-layered circuit boards made their way from the computer market to music products such as mixing boards, thus making them a lot cheaper (like the first Alesis Board) but also much more costly to repair because you often had to throw away the circuit board and get a new one over small problems. If you simply blew a pot that was integrated into the board there was no way to fix the individual componate.

Fender came out with their first solid state guitar amps and started a trend in guitar amps that also trickled down into PA Power Amps such as the Peavey Decca series.

Hmm...that's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure that tomorrow a few dozen other things will pop into it that I'll wish I'd have said.
 
Sort of...

Hey, Dr Colossus, you are not entirely wrong...
This is no homework...Do you think I trust you guys enough to base my homework on your stories??? Well, YES!
HEHEHE
Seriously, my homework was only about songwriting in the 80's, but as a recording maniac (wich I am) I want to know wich other things could make the songwriting change. Also want to know every improvement, and so on... I love history and "stories" that I won't find anywhere else...
The data I can find here is great, because is sort of "unique knowledge" of any of you guys...

Peace and Thank You

KEEP ON POSTING!!!

PC
 
gate

overly gated drum sounds bleeeaarrgghh!!!!!!!!!
think Robert Palmer Addicted to love yuck.
 
I think that the CD was Invented earlier because I have a lazer disk machine that was used by the Military Manufactured in 1978. It would be my guess audio only came first before video.
 
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