How It Was Recorded

Gear · tape machine

3M Eight-track tape machine (model not stated)

Records it appears on · 2

  • The Band

    The Band · Album, 1969

    • Studio and effects · Input chainReportedCapitol supplied an eight-track 3M machine for the band's own pool-house studio.
  • Let It Be

    The Beatles · Album, 1970

    • Apple studio recording equipment (Let It Be sessions) · Input chainReportedThe eight-track tape machine at Apple, described as the one piece of studio equipment there that worked, used for tracking the sessions.

Sources for each use are on the record’s own page.

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Slate Digital Virtual Tape Machines

tape

Models two Studer machines, not this recorder. It gives the general behaviour of analogue multitrack tape.

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Universal Audio Studer A800 Tape Recorder

tape

Models a Studer A800, not this recorder. It gives the general behaviour of analogue multitrack tape.

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