How It Was Recorded

Gear · tape machine

Panasonic RX-5100

Records it appears on · 1

  • Nebraska

    Bruce Springsteen · Album, 1982

    • Mixdown and transfer · Mix effectsReportedStereo mixdown deck: a water-damaged boom box. The album runs slightly flatSettings: Its speed varied after water damage. Music editor Jason Ruder measures the album as generally about a quarter of a semitone flat

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Cassette deck and tape model; use a cheap-deck setting. No plugin of this boom box exists.

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