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Re: [ARSCLIST] The dawn of commercial digital recordings
On 24/10/07, Tom Fine wrote:
>> From one of the links below:
>
> ----------------------------- quote:
> The first digitally recorded (DDD) popular music album was Bop Till
> You Drop by Ry Cooder, recorded in late 1978; it was unmixed, being
> recorded straight to a two-track 3M digital recorder in the studio.
> ----------------------------
>
> I do not think this is true. If I remember 3M's marketing from the
> time, this album was recorded to a 3M multi-track and then mixed down
> to a 3M 2-track master. Does anyone have any literature or press
> materials from that time to clarify this?
>
From the back of the LP sleeve:
"This album was recorded on 3-M multitrack digital equipment which .....
samples sound at the rate of 50,000 times a second"
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Don Cox
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