Re: [linux-audio-user] More music

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:08:21AM -0500, Dan Easley wrote: access to an 8-track like and imagine creating that on 4-track, then bounce fill that one up, and 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:

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