I've been listening to Motown singles in glorious mono (as it was intended)

[SODDI]

So I got a little curious about how they did those 3-minute symphonies with so little tech and I found this:

http://www.recordingeq.com/motown/motownengr1.htm
"The Lost Step in the Recording Process"

It's all about how recording engineers handled the bouncing of tracks on a 3-track Ampex tape recorder by "premastering" tracks. The Motown "system".

They did so much with so little. This is a great (short) article and may be of interest.

"Any staff engineer would record a basic session on three tracks. The engineer was strictly forbidden from using any eq, compression or any other type of signal processing." Words for me to live by.

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I love old Mowtown too, thanks for sharing the link!