Back to the (Vinyl) Future

vinyl-7723Lady GaGa is making news with her latest album, just released. Oops, I mean “dropped.” Some of the new songs were recorded on analog equipment, on tape, as it was done way back when, before the 1s and 0s of digital recording took over in the nineteen-nineties. Digital recording has the advantage that a song can be pieced together from numerous takes, a few seconds from here, a section from there. The off-key parts, whether vocal or instrumental, can be corrected with a bit of digital wizardry called Auto-Tune.

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