Analog Recording
An analog console, also known as a mixing board, is a device for routing the multitude of audio signals present in a recording into various outputs. These boards allow the audio signal to be controlled, split, filtered and otherwise adjusted internally and by other devices in the electrical environment. Analog mixers are usually the central piece of equipment in a recording studio or live sound venue. Recording artists using analog consoles had to record using tape decks. Two factors that allowed engineers to distort the audio are in relation to the tape’s width and the speed at which the song was played back.
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“I didn’t have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let’s say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!”
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