How It Was Recorded

Gear · tape machine

Sony 24-track digital recorder (model not stated)

Records it appears on · 2

  • Brothers in Arms

    Dire Straits · Album, 1985

    • Console, recorder and mix · Input chainVerifiedDigital multitrack used for the whole album.
  • Metallica

    Metallica · Album, 1991

    • Drums · Input chainVerifiedThe heavily edited analogue drum tape was transferred to this digital machine because it could not be played back many more times.

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

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