Fra en AES rapport, om dengang vinyl var sjef. Man testet 3-kanals playback. Bob Ohlsson i Tape-OP bladet om testen:
They set up a state of the art 1962 control room and played back a bunch of old three-track safety masters from that era. The sound destroyed everything at the show. I mean, it was a no-brainer better than anything we’re doing now, it’s sickening. And at one point, Doug Botnik, who used to be at Sunset Sound turned to me and said, “Man I remember the first time I tried to do a session on a transistor board I wanted to slit my wrists.”
Bob Ohlssons intervju (HELE LIGGER BAK BETALINGSMUR):
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Ohlsson om hvor enkelt man var tvunget til å gjøre ting før, og om hvorfor det er blitt vanskelig og dårlig nå:
Most people want tube compressors but they don't want tube boards, they want Neves and APIs. Well they want big. I mean that's the thing. They want a million inputs, and the old boards didn't have million inputs. People want to do things in real complicated ways, and the old ways were really very simple. You know the magic happened out in front of the mic, and if the magic didn't happen in front of the mic, it sounded awful, and you did it again.
En artikkel fra AES om kontroll-rommet de satte opp.
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Ohlsson får runde av:
I mean there used to be a saying,'You can't stop a hit record' and certainly the experience of a lot of the ones back then was very much that: you literally felt that you couldn't have screwed it up if you'd wanted to. The record has its own soul, so to speak, and it tells you what to do. I think our problem now is that we don't have records that have enough of that magical quality that causes the record to sell itself and so we've become very dependent on very expensive promotion and publicity and video - and all of these ancillary things. I mean think of the absurdity, that people are being asked to buy a record that the video cost more than the CD to make.
Fra kontrollrommet de satte opp i AES. Masse fine detaljer i AES-linken over. 3-kanals playback:
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Publikum fikk høre mono-versjon, fantomsenter med standard L/R stereo (som vi alle er fornøyde med), og tre-kanalsstereo.
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