25-04-2014, 12:25 AM
(24-04-2014, 08:19 AM)primeratomarecords Wrote: It is my first experience with analog tape recordings (which challenge! Now I admire even more, engineers mix of 70).
Well, bear in mind that recordings done in state-of-the-art studios in the 70s which were properly stored would be much higher quality than these. You made an interesting choice for your first mix here, tackling the song with probably the most extensive technical problems of any multitrack on the site.
That being said, it is true that 70s engineers didn't have access to a lot of the automation we have now, and what automation there was had to be programmed by hand with physical instrumentation; many things we take for granted today, like preprogrammed plug-ins for DAWs simply didn't exist then. So yes, 70s engineers had to be a lot more technically capable than today's engineers.
