I want to know something. If you had an old Ampex recorder, some old 50s tube compressors, a few akg d19s and maybe a um57, and you recorded some people playing instruments, would it sound like a recording made in the 50s/60s? It seems like after all that purist approach to equipment that it would sound authentically old. What i dont get is how people are supposesdly still using all this vintage equipment but everything sounds new. EVERYTHING. No matter how hard you try to make something sound authentic it just sounds modern anyways. Like that White Stripes album that was recorded at that supposedly all vintage equipped studio. Man i was so psyched when i saw the equipment at that studio, but when i heard the album it just sounded like the same old modern production to me.
I have always been a deep believer that you could record great music with barely anything and it would still sound great, but this question is purely about production only and not about songwriting or performance. I am aware of how important those things are already so i dont need to hear that old routine again. I just want to know why its so hard to make things sound the way they did back then.
I have always been a deep believer that you could record great music with barely anything and it would still sound great, but this question is purely about production only and not about songwriting or performance. I am aware of how important those things are already so i dont need to hear that old routine again. I just want to know why its so hard to make things sound the way they did back then.
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