When The Beatles first got together to record ‘Please Please Me’, they barely had two tracks of tape audio to rub together and make a third. Thankfully, things improved for the Fab Four by ‘Let It Be’, with the pioneering exuberance of four-track tape.
It goes without saying that today’s audio technology bears little relation to those early experimental days of multitrack studio recording. Capturing quality audio is possible on a near-endless variety of machines and media; even the average smartphone boasts vastly broader possibilities than the most advanced studio environment of the 1960s, and our personal computers have the potential to be studio powerhouses of their own.
