ok - lets be clear - Tom Waits "Real Gone" was not recorded on a Fostex 4 track by Mark Howard... perhaps select tracks were effected or "processed" through a fostex 4track cassette deck - but to imply the full album was recorded this way is just nonsense.
I'll take a stab that it sounds good because the songs are good, the performances of the songs are good, and the recording/mixing of the songs are good... even if mono, that equals good.
and let us not forget that in most applications, pro gear from the 60s is still better than amature/prosumer gear from today...
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Originally Posted by arpodthegreat  i guess that´s a simple answer but i wonder if it´s something else as well. i know that the fostex (it´s what a lot of Real Gone by Tom Waits was recorded on and Mark Howard told me he couldn´t beat that sound if he tried) isn´t going to sound like abbey road and that i´m not the most pro engineer. i´m just wondering if that old sound sounds good to us because we know it was done 45 years ago or if its something more. |