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RE: Les Paul and the Les Pulveriser
>> But he did in fact invent
multitrack recording. <<
well, we'll never know the truth about this.... he certainly
raised it's profile, but I'm not sure he was the first musician to consider the
possibility.
(was it possible to perform punch-ins or overdubs with
player-piano recorders?)
wikipedia, disappointingly, has a section called "the impact of
multitrack recording on popular music" which, instead of analysing it's supposed
subject, just lists the first dozen or so well-known & commercially
successful recordings to use the technique; there's no mention of how it changed
the business of capturing a single performance into this present ritual of
"painting over" guide tracks & forever punching-in & so
on.
d.
