[Norm Lenhart]

Music biz is the same. Some of the best and most innovative music today is by one or two man shops with a laptop and a copy of Guitar rig/Pro tools.

The big studios are closing or being sold off ala newspapers. The industry refuses to adapt to current realities and is / has been imploding.

[knarf]

Shortly after I got my first computer, I got into a "What was it like back then" phase of rock n' roll stars and recordings.

One of the more fascinating aspects about music of the fiftie's and early sixties was the techniques used to produce some familiar sounds we remember today.

A lot of Elvis (f'rinstance) recorded in a hallway in a little studio on a hot summer day in Memphis ... to produce that echo effect