Analogue Tape Recording
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Music Tech || MT CA1 - Introduction to Music Technology and the Music Business
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How many tracks were available using tape machines in the 1950s?
1-2
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What would the number of tracks available mean for the quality of the recording?
It was often NOT very good.
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What is meant by mono?
Only one channel of audio.
Recordings were mixed in mono and had no panning.
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How many microphones would be used?
Only used a small number of microphones.
Some instruments would sound distant as a result.
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How many takes were done to record an instrument live?
One take.
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What are artefacts?
Unwanted sounds caused by the tape machine.
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What is distortion?
When an audio signal is too loud.
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What is noise?
Unwanted sound called tape hiss.
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