Comments on: An opinon piece that laments the ‘good old days’ of old-school music production (1958) https://www.preservationsound.com/an-opinon-piece-that-laments-the-good-old-days-of-old-school-music-production-1958/ information and ideas about audio history Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:04:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Bafflegab https://www.preservationsound.com/an-opinon-piece-that-laments-the-good-old-days-of-old-school-music-production-1958/#comment-25569 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:04:30 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5120#comment-25569 The average record of 1958 SOUNDED better than the average “record” does today, because the musicians could play, the engineers had legit backgrounds, and most of all people wanted it to sound good.

Music style is a different question. A lot of jazz back then sounds hokey and rootely-tootely to me, but then I can’t listen to the bilge the local pop, country or rock stations program now either. Even Madonna records from the nineties sound good compared to that crap.

So what is a good comparison? I don’t know. I really don’t. I know that the last record Nancy Sinatra did, considering her admittedly miniscule vocal range, sounded pretty good to me. She talks about her favorite mic here:

http://nancysinatra.com/blog/2012/07/nancy-sound/

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