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Old 08-04-2012, 08:16 AM   #2187
ivansc
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Class acts being recorded sound like class acts usually unless the recordist is deaf or stupid.
Those guys and others like them, all you really needed to do as stick mics in front of their instruments and let them loose.

So much of the magic was about seasoned pros knowing how to get a good, blended sound in the room without any help from the engineers for the most part.
That is what is missing in a lot of todays music.
If you read the books etc written about the funk brothers and various other studio house bands from hat era, these guys not only spent a LOT of time playing together in the studio, mostly they did outside gigs or jammed together as well.

The band that stays together plays together, to paraphrase.
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