[re_nortex]

The Beatles had more to do with this phenomena than simply the march of time.

And on the subject of the Beatles, this is purportedly the recording equipment in use at Abbey Road during their early years:

This is not an area of my expertise, but I daresay a typical home computer equipped with today's recording software applications rivals what was available to George Martin at the time.

[TsonicTsunami08]

Sargent Pepper was recorded on a 4 track machine, an amazing feat. They would record with all 4 tracks and then use a technique called bouncing where they would move 3 tracks over to one. That would free up 3 tracks and they would repeat the process over adding layers of instruments which would add depth and space along with primitive tape looping adding delay and echo.Everything was painstakingly edited with razor blades and taped back together.It took a little over 5 months and the music world writers at the time we’re saying the Beatles had dried up and ran out of ideas. Hahahahaha!

[SamAdams76]

The recording ability on a MacBook Pro blows away any professional recording studio of the 1960s. Or 1970s for that matter. Of course you need to have some skills to properly use the software available to you.