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that is how it is done and trust me Pete was not the one doing it...

David Polich wrote:Hey, Pete was just explaining how they did it. In all fairness, he's not some guy in a home studio working on one thing at a time - he's got plenty going on, and I think the convoluted recording schedule and use of different hardware and software was more a matter of scheduling and who was where at what time.

My assumption as well.

I dig the fact that we're getting a brand new Who album. Props to them for not sitting around doing nothing creatively. Pete and Roger could have retired years ago. And they're not taking the attitude of some old fart musos I've met who freak out if you use anything other than a reel to reel deck and a microphone.

Here here. The "old dog, new trick" notion is a false myth anyway.

I know a lot of people favor this "quit while you're on top" conceit, but I say "F** that. Do what you love until you redline."

I think the point of the original post was that DP gets used more than you might think in today's supposedly "Pro Tools only" world.

Yeah. And as a kind of side-note, DP-related FYI. I figured some people would be at least passively interested in the trivia.

I love tech notes like that.

chrispick wrote:I know a lot of people favor this "quit while you're on top" conceit, but I say "F** that. Do what you love until you redline.

Dang, Pickster, that's my "quote of the year" so far, especially the concluding sentence.
Thank you for the pearl.
Nicky

DP seems to be the DAW of musicians and PT the DAW of engineers and producers...
Musicians like to have available to them more creative tools instead of the esoteric... I really don't want to slow down a part of a cut like touching the record or Cosmonaut voice etc. I want more of the musically related tools @ my grasp and thats most likely why Townshend uses DP...
Us crazy ol' timers will just grab the reel hehe...

So... With all the time that's passed from when this topic was on the front page, are you still listening to the album? How is it?

Runners_Dial_0 wrote:So... With all the time that's passed from when this topic was on the front page, are you still listening to the album? How is it?

If you liked Quadrophenia and Tommy (and I mean liked them as whole albums, not just for Love Reign O'er Me and Pinball Wizard), then you will like the new album. If you only like their "Greatest Hits" and "Who's Next", then you may not appreciate it as much. Roger hits a couple of squeakers here and there, but overall, he sounds pretty amazing, especially given that he's now 58 I believe. Pete's vocals are a little weak in areas, but then they always were...even when he was 20! Probably the weakest point are the programmed drums that Pete used on the opening track - sounds like he used an Alesis SR16!

Regarding the transferring technique....I don't find it strange, or all that unusual. Basically he tracked all the main parts in his studio to tape, then he added some guitar and keyboard overdubs using DP, then he took the whole thing to a commercial studio for mixdown, using PT. What's so weird about that?

maybe recording from varying sources such as tape and different converters yeilds varying textures as well. Everything doesn't sound so sonically similar.

Didn't he have a Radar in the chain. I think the Radar with Nyquest is the goto tape to DAW machine for the guys with some time and money. Then it's bounced into PT for editing and mixing. Extra time, and Extra Cash but many give big praise to the Nyquest converters.

brett wrote:billable hours are billable hours. some one got paid for all that nonsense.

What nonsense?