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"
Regards -- Don Cox doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx