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Sotosound
Calling Soulster. Come in Soulster.
Was one of the changes observed by hunting a change of mixing desk?
And do you know when Motown went to 16-track?
bob_olhsson
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A lot of that was three track or three track bounced to eight. I agree that a lot of it sounded better than the eight track only productions.
The dedicated mix room was installed in 1966 and was our first solid state console with a 3M solid state eight track machine. Previously the mixing had been done in the Hitsville control room which was all tube gear.
Stereo was an after-thought much like 5.1 is today until the stores stopped ordering
mono albums around 1968. Most
mono pop songs are better mixes because they got the most attention.
bob_olhsson
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Three track involved more things being mixed together "off the floor."
The original two eight track machines also had pretty serious hum on the two outside tracks. Ironically we had just replaced them with new machines when we were abruptly told to go 16 track around 1968. I'll never forget a conversation I had with Norman Whitfield wondering what we were going to do with 16 tracks and our expectation that it would probably be lots harder to mix.
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