Reply #1: I don't care about the name. I want to produce the recordings!

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Ribbon and tube condenser mics, two-inch analog tape at 15 ips (30 is good, but the bass response is diminished slightly), Neve mixing desk, as much vacuum tube (valve) equipment as possible, recording as many parts at the same time as can be managed and the final mix run through a stereo tube compressor/limiter. (Fast attack/medium release, 2-5 db gain reduction at a 4:1 ratio maximum.)

Of course, everything ultimately winds up in the digital realm on CD, but it's old school the rest of the way. It will jump out of yer speakers the way Beatle records did all those years ago.

Speaking of whom, Sir George Martin reminds us all that "no amount of technology will fix a bad performance."

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