Think I mentioned The Nightfly album recently which I see was an album recorded (and almost abandoned due to technical difficulties) digitally before we could really listen digitally (pre CD) . Interesting to read the history of digital recording and was amazed to see the first albums recorded digitally occurred in 1972. #DigitalRecording
#DigitalAudio #Wikipedia #history #technology
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_recording

Even if it's impossible to upsample the actual #recording (yeah, if you record in 44.1kHz, you can't magically add the detail to make it 96kHz or 192kHz), but your effects/processing plugins at least have a better clarity in the final product.

This also applies if you use #MIDI #instruments that have the capability for higher sample rates. For example, in #LogicProX the #Alchemy #synth has a Quality selector that can be set to Ultra.

#DigitalAudio #DigitalRecording #musician #producer

Despite the debate about whether listening to #music at particularly high sample rates has diminishing returns, #mixing and #mastering at the highest sample rate possible still has benefits, especially for time-based processing effects such as delay (which I use a lot of)

It makes sense, since the master version is higher quality, so the best source possible gives even lossy formats like mp3 a better chance.

#DigitalRecording #recording #AudioEngineer #musician #producer #IndependentProducer

#KimDeal talks about the early days of #DigitalRecording in the latest #TapeOp magazine 🎶 👍 😁 #Music #Recording #TheBreeders #ThePixies #Dayton #Ohio

One of the world’s first digital recording systems: the Denon DN-023R (1972), an 8-channel system with 13-bit resolution at a sampling rate of 47.25kHz, which recorded onto Hitachi 4-head open-reel broadcast videotape in low-band (black & white) mode (it was cheaper & had fewer dropouts than colour) – seen here with Dr. Takeaki Anazawa, one of the system’s inventors.

#DenonDN023R #DigitalAudio #DigitalRecording #DrTakeakiAnazawa

Death of The Key Change

"So what is going on? Both of the shifts can be tied back to two things: the rise of hip-hop and the growing popularity of digital music production, or recording on computers."

I find it fascinating that cultural and technology changes have created a different soundtrack.

The explanation of the latter makes me a bit uneasy but also leads me to believe that additional advances could create another change.

#Music #DigitalRecording #KeyChange

https://tedium.co/2022/11/09/the-death-of-the-key-change