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RE: About digital recording of analogue sources

I know that Gordon Holt and Steve Stone recorded tons of performances off the Boulder Symphony. And I'm pretty sure Gordon used a Sony DAT to record. I also know he checked the levels of the orchestra during practice and then set the DAT recording level and just let it go for the entire performance. The recording was then simply put onto CDs.

I've only heard one of these recordings, a Carmina Burana and it's exciting. This isn't surprising. Gordon was into audio mainly to approach live sound with recordings. And he had a great ear and sense of what he heard. So that's one example of recording digital to CD that I believe works. And I have no doubt that the other recordings work too.

It can be done. What happens commercially is often another story. But the commercial purpose is to sell, sound 'good' to the majority. And unfortunately we usually get what the majority pays for. Musically the tyranny of the majority. But that's usually true for analog too.


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