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Hi, is there is a chance to buy or downlod that beautiful music what you played on the tape?

As someone that's 35, I lean more towards Rick's sentiment, but I do believe he missed the mark. The live music scene is what's drastically changed, but this is more of an economy thing. My town in 2007 had a handful of small music venues where live acts could perform and each had their own 'scene'. In addition to the 'mom and pop' live venues, there were several independent bars, bookstores, record shops, pool halls, etc. All these got completely wrecked by the 2008-10 financial meltdown and have since been bought up and turned into luxury apartments, chain restaurants, and other various corporate entities. Now, even when I travel to other cities things, everything sorta seems the same. I usually keep these observations to myself because I don't like coming off as sour grapes and the 20 somethings don't get it but sometimes it is really sad.

I had a 10 inch reel of AMPEX unknown # that had a project on it at 15 IPS in 1977. When it was made I made a copy at 7.5 on Maxell for home use. The Maxell is still OK and works but years ago the AMPEX tape went bad and I knew nothing about reworking binders etc. so it is gone. The only tapes I had problems with much shedding was some Radio Shack stuff one time and it was bad. I got some commercial RTR consumer releases from the early 60s on Ampex tape and it seems to have held up OK. But the Japanese tapes have had no problems in long term storage for me.

AI won't be a massive threat to music because at the end of the day people love making music and creating things. AI can't replace that desire.

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My work-flow progression: Radio Shack and Realistic 2-track tape decks, Otari and TEAC 2-track mixdown, Dokodor 4-Track tape, Otari 8, Otari 16, Macintosh (countless desktops - 3 or 4 of them,) Digi-design digital, many upgrades, Logic Pro. Voice-Memo on iPhone is real quick (i.e., NO set-up time for work-flow!) 0ver sixty years of recording - I'm 68 and remember recording Monkees songs segments from the RCA Victor TV set onto the reel-to-reel tape machine in the mid to late 60s! - and it wasn't just another Pleasant Valley Sunday - it was the meaning of life. !

It's been frustrating chasing new shiny toys and not realizing that the old Otari MX16 was invaluable while it's pinch roller dissolved to mush, and that the software based Koblo by Tokyo (invaluable percussion and synths) would die by the old MAC 9600 along with QAudio's 3-D mixing for stereo speakers - I still can't live without that!, I plugged in the Dokodor 4 track after years - 30 years, and like you said!, it works perfectly like the day I stopped using it! The old stuff is priceless and thanks to some new trick ponies like Universal Audio we can still simulate to a T the analog magic into this digital realm. We adjust fine to this new instant work-flow with all the practice we got pressing the Return to Zero and high speed rewind. I always prayed that the cat wouldn't jump onto the rotating Ampex reels at high speed. It never happened but was the source I'm sure of a few nightmares - he's learned to adjust too, now sleeping on the MAC keyboard when I'm not looking and erasing the entire hard drive! lol The planet evolves with new dreams and new nightmares. Recording and Engineering is the best business to have been in all along.

The perspective delivered in this video opens up a discussion about more than music creation and recording. How things are done and what kind of decision making that takes place in the age of digitization. Very enlightening to have that 40 year perspective on the longevity of technology too. Treating recording as a performance will reflect in the quality of the recorded music in ways that we understand when we hear it.

So, digital has taken some of the art out of the art.

The wave of digital sound is in steps, each step a sample. The wave of analogic is a curve. This is better.

You were forced to have your stuff together for the sake of the art because you knew it was about capturing the moment rather than being a perfectionist in the booth.

Regarding the tuning, are we saying that the tuning re-tempers from chord to chord in fake instruments? Because that's why any "real" instrument, electronic or acoustic, analog or digital, can never be perfectly in tune with itself in every key. Music intervals, as a matter of frequencies, are mathematically imperfect. That is what temper tuning is all about. A principle call the Pathagorean Comma proves this.

All of this will most unfortunately pave the way for "music" that is *fully* generated by AI. Like the frog in water slowly brought to a boil many people will not even notice it because they are being conditioned now by the things covered in this video. Even worse - many of those same people won't even care if they do know it is AI. There was another video like this from another producer,sound engineer or something along those lines and he played the drum track for a Led Zeppelin song that had been reproduced by a computer. By itself it sounded fine really, but then he played the authentic version pounded out by a human being (John Bonham) on real skins and the improvement was undeniable. He called it "swing". The machine version next it sounded like exactly what it was - soulless, sterile and void of feeling or emotion. Music is one of our oldest forms of self expression and creativity, and that is just on the side of the musician. For the listener it is a way to communicate, to grieve, to celebrate and even a way for them to identify to others who they are. The assembly line might work for Fords but turning over such an essential part of our collective heritage to a machine is clearly a mistake. I'm not in the industry so I can not legitimately claim what is behind it but I can not help but think it is money. This stuff probably save a lot of time so more of the same can be churned out. Also, as to why everything *has sounded the same for a long* time is, dare I say, due to the fact that the price of admission is no longer years spent mastering your instrument or honing your skills otherwise because they can now be replicated at the push of a button.

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The talk about networking was hilarious 😂 So good!

beautiful. You live the dream Billy.

Really love this video!

Thanks for a thought-provoking video! I had my past in the radio business, first as a sound engineer and later as a producer of my own programs. I remember the first time I tried digital editing. I was horrified: Shall I have to draw volume curves like straight lines instead of using my hands to sensually craft the dynamics on the mixer? But I quickly adjusted. Strangely, my first sessions as an amateur musician on a Tascam 144 portastudio are still my best music creation memories, just for the reasons you have now clarified for me. After all, we humans are analog - we are made of bone&blood/brains, not of bits. Analog tools speak to us in ways we don't even register consciously. Thanks again. Maybe I will have to find a used portastudio instead of my Mac and my Logic.

Well now you can backup on the cloud instead of a physical drive.

You can still have the quality of digital with the commitment of analog. ADAT.

This applies to many other areas of work and life in general

Nailed it

All of your digital pathways were I'll conceived and inexpertly pursued. All of those problems were trivially surmountable, you just didn't bother to learn. Predictable mac user.

I am sorry, first you tell all of us, how good analog works, but this production again sounds very sterile to me .. because you are using digital equipment very strong.. like anyone does nowadays .. 🥶 Go more straight back to nature, fellow. 🤷‍♂ Gosh, and leave me alone with "Melodyne" 🙈 🙈 🙈

WTF only 836 views. I feel special.

Одно время я занимался программированием, работал и преподавал в политехническом институте, и как-то в разговоре с приятелем он заметил, что современные технологии "развращают", когда приходилось вводить код с помощью перфокарт ответственность и качество были на много выше. Я с ним согласился и думаю, здесь есть некоторые параллели с темой видео.

For me to be able to record my music I would have needed a band, a choir, an orchestra, tons of time to rehearse and an endless supply of money. Thanks to technology I was able to put together a modest studio and record my music by myself. Without technology my music would have never been heard.

Great video, thank you! It's a little sad....

I'm a vocalist. I would rehearse and rehearse a song, with no recording. THEN I record. Making multiple crappy takes is exhausting. You get tired and bored. Do it right when you know the song well. Do maaybe three takes. Then stop.

Extremely impressed - Put into words what I have been struggling with for years. I could not even make sense to myself about it. Thanks so much for untangling this serious mental/emotional hydra. Now maybe I can get some sleep -

This is a long complicated bit of theater to get you to listen to his HS garage band reels😂 Pretty good tho👍

100%! Agree. Very insightful.

I don't know anything about music but this is the case for animation too

My only deep sorrow is the unrelenting insistence of recording and motion picture companies upon purveying the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear-naturally I refer to the bulk of rock ‘n’ roll. It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people. It smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiterations and sly, lewd-in plain fact dirty-lyrics, and as I said before, it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. This rancid smelling aphrodisiac I deplore.

bitchin machine man ... thats a lot of tracks

A very insightful video. I've stumbled across this by accident, but the point you make about being caught up in the process of get it done quickly (or "JFDI") isn't delivering better results, is oh so true. It's true about lots of things, not just music. I've given up recording, sold my stuff a while ago, I had a Teac 3440 which I loved. I still write songs now and then, play guitar but it's just for me, a bit of an outlet. I started on computer stuff, but I couldn't get it like with analog, I lost a precious drive once that couldn't be recovered and that sealed it for me. I also work in IT! Explain that!

If I understood the argument, you could also try to play music while standing on your head, that would also improve discipline... The talk about had drives is bogus. You can read them on the contemporary machines if they survived. If you have old failed drives with undamaged surface you can still recover the data. After all, it is no different from a tape, some fine ferromagnetic dust on an Aluminum disc. But any archiving require maintenance, e.g. periodic scrubbing and software to prevent bit rot. If you do it right, you migrate to the new hardware in the process. The only difference to tapes is that digital hardware (including LTU tapes and drives) evolves and analogue does not.

Analog is definitely better. Vacuum tubes in stereos were the best. Creates a warm sound you cannot fake even with AI. And never ever ever will be able to.

I do this way too much!! I have like 30 "b-sides" and i should probably revisit them!!

Recently? I've been hearing that since 2008

Backing up your computers to LTO tapes provides the best of both worlds. LTO is the de facto professional data backup medium. It has been around for a long time and is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.

I like the double XL-121. Definitely has personality!

hurry up and wait -- builds character

Dude, that was amazing.

Analogue assembly

There is still great music but not if you're not listening to it. Lazy listeners are to blame

Just stay away from AMPEX tape!!

Fantastic men! You got point!

You must had come after my time. We were using an RMX and Lexi 480L for our main verbs. I’d love to hear bk 2 bk compares of them vs plugs! The only really cheap processor I rem was an Yamaha SPX500 or maybe SPX90? or something like that. Plus the plethora of Lexi 200s, 70s, 60s... I think we still had a 224xl and the 480l at the same time! Love to hear them vs plugs as well! But the 224xl defined drum rev since its introduction! And it wasn't cheap. I think that cost as much as our 24tk Sony/MCI. $24k 1980 dollars or so. I rem the 480l being cheap at 11 or 12k just a few yr later! Reverb used to be the no3 expense after your 2” and console!