Technology That Changed Recording History (Part 2)
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- Ever wondered about the evolution of tape machines? Learn from sound expert Nicholas Bergh of Endpoint Audio Labs in this video.
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00:47 How Does Magnetic Recording Work?
03:00 Improvements in Magnetic Tape
05:31 The First Ampex Tape Machine
06:50 Editing With a Tape Machine
08:23 The Sound Quality
09:43 The Impact of the Tape Machine
11:24 How Are These Machines Used Now?
12:36 NEXT VIDEO - Recording Technology That Changed Music Forever...
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I still got the 1/4 inch tape where my father asked me what I wanted to do when I would grow up! And my answer to his question was "I want to do what we are doing now" And guess what some 20 years later I became a Professional Audio Engineer! But that recording my father made was done on Tandberg TB-2 Stereo (4 track) some 66 years ago!
Thank you guys for sharing this documentary video about the Tape Recorder. ... p.s. I remember when I began to work @ the Icelandic State Televison that they had these giant German made FULL Track Recorders from Telefunken where the "Head Block" was reversed, (well yes maybe not as easy to see where you were going to edit with your pen marker, but what these machines had were "Built in Cutters" and wery easy to use
Now I am a retired professional sound engineer with the Swedish Radio. Started back in 1971, but have turned to front of house mixing. However I collect r2r-machines and have 30+ and hundreds of tapes. My smallest is a Crown from the 60's - a "pocket size" model... The largetst one is a Studer A812 with a weight of approx 90 kilograms. That is what I call heavy duty. ;-)
Wow 😲👍
Man after my own heart, at least in some ways.
I became hooked on open reel tape in 1980 at the age of 13 when a close friend and mentor (19 years older than I am) gave me a 1961 Voice of Music model 722 vacuum tube machine. It had a few problems that I didn't know how to fix at that time, but I was hooked! The next year I bought a brand-new Realistic TR-3000 (TEAC X-3 in different clothes). I loved that machine (almost to death...)! I used it a lot during my teen years.
Professionally, I became an electrical/computer engineer. Currently, I write low-level embedded software for small specialized computers that control big electrical power plants.
But I never lost my love for vintage analog audio equipment, and particularly for open reel tape machines. I love their engineering and sound.
I, too, have a large collection of machines (over 60 now, I think). The crown jewel in my collection is a Studer B67 MkI that I just recently acquired. Someday I'd love to have a C37 or A80 or an A800-series machine!
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@@waltwimer2551 Cool!
I have two B67 MK I and the A812.
Also the PR 99 MK III, two G 36 HS, one A700 and a few A77 MK IV HS.
Plus a SONY APR 5003, two Nagra's and more... ;-)
People think I am crazy/nerd, but I can live with that.
Nice to hear someone that likes those analog machines as much as I do.
@@olledahlquist3784
I'm drooling! Wonderful collection!
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Interesting history. I miss my reel-to-reel tape deck. I loved recording albums to tape when I was stationed in Berlin. I could listen to five hours of uninterrupted music with the Akai auto-reverse feature. 👍🏼😎🎶
I've got three tapes recorded from a radio.
One recorded April 1 1963. One recorded in 73 and one recorded in 75.
Got those in the early 90's from a flea market.
I sometimes think what life may have been like back then when listening to the tapes.
I had an Akai. There's something very pleasing about watching those big reels!
This was fascinating for me because I was wrapped up with the 50's and 60's technology in the 70's, when I started visiting Hollywood studios learning about the various elements of their music recording.
I had an old Webcor wire-recorder in my childhood and came upon reel-recording (both 3-and-7-inch) in high school. While serving with the military, after high school, I acquired a TEAC 4010, which was very popular with the service-members, then.
I bought a Sony TC-630, used, from a mate, who'd lost interest, and started dubbing from tape-to- tape and, inadvertently short time, was trying to figure out how to solve the problem associated with the different positions of the recording and playback heads
I actually made a crude design drawing of a switching set-up for the recording head, around 1973. I lacked the courage to actually make it and was surprised to learn, from a media creator at work, and had, in his office, a TEAC 2340, with what looked like my design, that Les Paul had invented the technology, twenty years earlier!
We mostly take technology for granted, I think. My next recorder was a TEAC 3340 and I now use a DAW and an editor.
Very nice set of presentations!
Listening to that machine instantly make me want to cry, what a piece of history. Cheers from Mexico City!
I am a 76 year young audio engineer and worked with audio tape for years. This episode is great. Keep up the good work
These vids are great. Love seeing this historic gear in action.
My dad bought a high-end consumer open reel deck (Norelco) in the early '60s when I was a small child. When I got old enough I learned how to operate it. Eventually I had a Craig portable, which took 3" reels.
In my early 20s I started recording in my friend's 4-track basement studio, built around a TEAC A3440-S deck. We learned by doing. Scrubbed the tape back and forth to find the snare hits we wanted to use for edit points, marked them with a grease pencil, cut it with a razor blade, spliced the new ends, and hoped we got it right!
I've been a DAW guy for over 20 years now, and I wouldn't want to go back. But I'm glad I learned to do it the "old-school" way, back when that was the only way we had. 🤓
Cool channel. Keep up the good work, man!
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
What I was told once upon time was as best as I recall it about the following: It was an engineer or technician at Telefunken, who tried to improve the sound quality by more and more feedback in the amplifier. He was eventually astonished how good playback he achieved in his prototype. Everybody hearing it was similarly astonished. But then they made a small “beta test” series of the same design and they were miserable. A big troubleshooting an comparison operation revealed that the first unit had been wired wrong - the feedback had turned into feedforward and made it oscillate at inaudible high frequency. When corrected, the first unit was no better than the rest. That led to the tightly kept secret of the “Magnetophon”, (as Telefunken called their recorder). It was first used commercially for recording highlights of the Berlin Olympic games in 1936. According to my source, it remained under wraps until the end of WW2. Still many years after, the Telefunken coined name Magnetophon was used as a generic name at least in some countries. As it happened, I had some personal connection to two Telefunken Studio Magnetophons at a later time. I recall they were built with only ECC81 tubes, 7 altogether.
Here's a good Part 3 for you:
You left out one advancements in recording sound. In the late-30's, the movie industry recorded sound optically on movie film stock, even after magnetic recording tape had been perfected. In addition to recording optically, it also incorporated multi-track recording. There were usually 3-track. Stereo really wasn't in the picture at the time, but they had the opportunity to mix those 3 tracks down to a single optical trackburned into the master negative film reels. To put it into perspective, and maybe you are too young for it, but before video tape and digital disc formats, films were played with projectors. These films often included an optical soundtrack. In addition to the high-intensity lamp to project the film onto a screen, there was another lamp which shined through the film sound strip and there was a photo-electric cell on the other side of the film. This principle was also employed by the Philco "Beam Of Light" record player, which played conventional records.
OK. When you look at the sound strip on a film, it looks just like a record groove. So, because of optical film recording, today, we have true stereo mixes of old classic movies like "The Wizard Of Oz".
Movie studios continued with their 3-track recording after magnetic film was invented. This is why that we have stereo mixes of movie soundtracks when the recording industry was still using one or two-track magnetic tape recorders. Take Elvis Presley movies, which function as a platform to introduce new Elvis songs. This were recorded 3-track at the same time that Elvis was recording for records on one or two-track. Elvis' 1956 hit song from the movie was "Love Me Tender", which was recorded in 3-track. There has been a stereo mix out there for years. Then there is also "Jailhouse Rock" which has also been available in a stereo mix for awhile. Remember, these recordings were made in 1956 and 1957. Stereo was strictly in the development phase for records, but stereo had been introduced on the oversized cassettes for RCA's special tape players. The music available was often classical.
Now, as far as multi-track tape recorders, people like Les Paul had been using multiple tape recorders all mixed down to one track to get his signature sound. This was a real pain because the same stuff had to be recorded over and over again. Les Paul got the idea to add more recording and playback heads to a tape recorder. He contacted Ampex and they built an 8-track tape recorder for him.
Atlantic Records had been interested in making stereo recordings since soon after the label's creation. In the early-50's, Atlantic Records started to put out "Binaural" records. These required special double tone arms, as the stereo groove was still experimental. Atlantic Records also had Ampex build them an 8-track recorder. It took the rest of the industry awhile to catch up. Going through phases, first 2-track, then 3-track, then 4-track, on and on. And remember, the movie industry was doing multi-track 3-track recording decades before.
Oh, another modification of the recording process. In the early-60's, after magnetic movie film had been around for awhile, record labels and recording studios figured they'd try recording on magnetic film stock instead of magnetic recording tape. It presented it's own problems besides being more costly than magnetic tape.
Thank you for posting this, I started my sound mixing career in 1979. It is with our state radio broadcaster & I learned to edit on Ampex 351 machines. We dub-edited, splicing was frowned upon.
What a shame we have to have the irritating subliminal "muzak" in the background! I find it difficult to ignore it and concentrate on what the gentlemen are saying. Seems to be the norm nowadays!
Thank you for the great video. I love all your videos, but this series is superb! Very grateful! Keep going.
I love watching these videos about audio history. Good stuff and appreciate ya! 🫡
countless are the edits I have made on a tape machine
my father had a close friend who was a classical music producer; this man began to "steal" and bring to my father the direct copies of the original master tapes he recorded around the world, and my father bought a Revox and later a Studer 2 tracks 38cm/s to play tthose tapes; in my very youth, when I was 6, 7 year old (around 1966), I had the opportunity to listen every day to music from the original tapes, Stravinsky, Brahms, etc. on McIntosh gear; dolby was not used then, the vinyl compression was enough to suppress much hiss; still today I can hear details quite invisible to other sound engineers, I had a good training;
Absolutely great Series! Thank you for sharing 🌻
Beautiful beautiful history, thank you brother!
It would have been nice to have seen an overhead view of that Ampex machine working, so that we could see how the tape threading works. During that audio demonstration starting around 8:30, would have been good.
Growing-up we had a FM radio station at my high school. My teacher had worked in the radio business as an announcer in the 50's and 60's. He wasn't in a hurry to embrace new technology. I cut my teeth on vinyl and tape. I remember recording and editing daily news programs on an Ampex 350.
My favorite in the published documentation of Tape Machines . Thanks .
This is such a timely video series . Thanks !!!🎉😅
I bought a fantastic real to real tape mechanism at an electronics surplus store in 1969. Pre recorded tapes played back perfectly when I connected it to an external amplifier. I tried everything I could think of to get it to record without distortion. Nothing worked. If I had known about the bias oscillator then I'll bet it would have recorded great. I've always found it amazing that the discovery was by accident. Who would have thought the technology would come and go so quickly. The digital world changed all that. I still play reel to reel tapes and the record player often.
The tapes that played back would also sound bad if the bias was that far off.
This is a really cool series you’ve done. I just got done with the first one.
So very Cool. Love it.
This is so good, thank you!
great videos, I hope there will be more history.
I found this very interesting . I've been using tape since 1977 and it allowed me to be creative with music . It was very nice to see back in history what was , and appreciate what is now .DGR
Excellent video 😊
I was given a B wind deck around 1960. that was where I learned to set up the bias to match the head.
If you watch Tom Dowd's movie you will get some more perspective. It is my understanding that the US military used "recorders" to capture test results during the research of the A-Bomb. Much of that technology was still Secret just after WWII.
In fair use I’d like to mention Robert E. Runstein as a then associate member of the Audio Engineering Society filled the information gap between recording engineers , record producers, and recording artists . I enjoy this 2 part Videography from a PRO . His black and white photos were by courtesy of the manufacturers . In this case,The Tape Recorder . This tightens up my knowledge thanks .
During WW2, in the US, due to lack of plastics for civilian use, 1/4" recording tape was made with paper backing. My dad had a fw of these which I used about 1960 on my Pentron tape recorder. Needless to say, print-thru and breakage were problems with paper tape.
Those big record heads were fantastic. Reading back with modern small heads revealed that the big heads put down a heck of a great signal.
I love that sound
Brilliant video
Thank you!
GREAT stuff!
Very interesting, thanks. Don't forget the early Decca tape machines!
Super interesting
I started out with a Terecorder 902.
Recently, some rather good fortune gifted me a near-mint Mk 1 Revox A77.
It was in a dumpster! The heads look like they've never seen tape, and it plays and records perfectly!
So much historical electronics end up as "boat anchors" and dumped. Even really high quality professional equipment ends up unloved, if we are lucky, some wise person rescues it from the dumpster. Even electronics recycling seldom retrieves ancient gear. I have speakers, oscilloscopes and a wire recorder from similar sources.
I can imagine the Google copyright bot blowing an IC trying to locate the song played on that first R2R.
Excellent!
Kudos!
My first R2R was a friend's Electra ,was like $19,99 in 1966
We did a soundtrack parody "Ben Crazy" a spoof on "Ben Casey TV Show"
If only we knew where it went
priceless
Tape is an invention of the german engineer Fritz Pfleumer who made machines for the cigarettes and developped a tape on cigarette paper, ready in 1928. He signed a contract with AEG in 1932 and they let BASF develop a tape on the base of cellulloid. They had issues with the fragile tape and later shifted the developement to the Berlin cinema developpers. First public demonstration in 1935 on the berlin radio fair. This machine was a real bargain of technology with 3 motors for the tape drive ( 1 capstan & 2 for the tape reels) speed was 1m/s (~40inch/sec).
WHAT a neat channel!
Just happened onto it and am now subbed!
My first R2R was a humble SONY 262-D stereo deck acquired brand-new in '59 or '60. I still have it as babied over all these decades and playing-still! (Got it at a bargain-basement blowout price as the 263-D was about to appear -- teenager affordable!)
As it was to prove, thirteen years hence my life path was to see me to Japan where I was to make that acquaintance of Mr. (Sama!) Akio Morita (half of the Morita/Ibuka brain-trust which MADE Sony, just post WWII), working for two weeks at the factory, which was within modest walking distance from the Pacifica Hotel, where they'd placed me.
And then following, two weeks finishing-up at Mr. Morita's home, my work ending with a party thrown which Norio Ohga (the then-new president, Morita having moved to chairman with Ibuka retired to yet-more secretive inventing) and all the heads of the Sony divisions were to attend.
It was all great fun and easy work plus an honor to meet all of them but so-especially as regarding Mr. Morita who seemed almost half-American, so like that as he was! He spoke perfect English and was most ebullient and naturally kind and thoughtful -- i.e. absolute perfection for doing what and as he did for his company, and its stockholders.
Ah! Past glory moments now all passed.
'Am looking greatly forward to exploring @AudioUniversity for hidden, delicious morsels of audio history.
So interesting so cool My trouble is there is only one lifetime to absorb all these interesting subjects .
My first one had an eery reverb and had a bunch of tapes on their reels in the original package I purchased with my first electric guitar from a psychedelic band guitarist plus he had a lite olive Moserite . I plugged it in !
Good video. I have worked with reel-to-reel machines many hours, having owned one and also being in studios half my life. I don't normally listen to this kind of music, but it sounded to me like this machine had some serious wow and flutter issues. Time for an overhaul I'd guess.
Cool Vids.
The tape recorder made possible the long-playing record. Previously, artists had to play an entire song direct to the disc master with no mistakes. This wasn't too hard for a single song, but without tape, making an LP would have required performing several songs in sequence perfectly. With tape, they could create and assemble the master tape, then transfer that to the master disc.
It's not quite true to say that L.P.s all required a master tape. The very first Columbia (U.S.) discs issued in 1948 were transferred from acetate masters, each several minutes long, recorded from 1939 onwards in anticipation of long playing records. The English CZcams channel 'Techmoan' has an excellent episode explaining all this; 'How a forgotten 1949 Format War shaped the future of records - The Battle Of The Speeds'.
Not really. Imagine, that the master discs will be recorded with 78 rpm and center start onto a 12", one song at a time and they press few very thick records and play these onto the LP.
Have you ever heard of the symphony orchestra?
When Germany fixed the noise issue by using high frequency bias, the system became a good mastering medium for recording industries including, you can edit it like movie film.
Germans copied it from an AT&T patent
The music makes me think about those old cartoons 😅
"Here's a tape from the forties - -" My Ampex Grand Master 456 tapes from the 80s are now balls of glue!! Not only did this trash my 'grand masters' it ended the company ! When I started at the BBC (1977) they used valve Studer C37's and Telefunken 1/4 inch machines.
Fascinating, the cheaper the medium, the less the music is worth.
Back in the late 1970s our studio had two full track Ampex 350(?)s. They were real workhorses. Every tape you’d have to slightly adjust the head alignment to get the best frequency response.
When did the NAB tape EQ come into the tape recording system and what dose it do?
Missing the film audio recorder and player system by Western Electric.
Still have some of my dads reel to reels, i have and old song i want to cut to acetate disk,...
And we shouldn't forget that the centennial of commercial electrical recording is next year!
The invention of sound on tape was made in Europe by a young man, who also made name as a director in the silent movie era. He was also responsible for the first prototype machine, which was used by a Eastgerman card company into the 70ties.
Hello
My thanks for this series of videos about old recording equipment, it is very interesting..
I also have a Grundig recorder that my father bought in 1964 and that I put to work from time to time, it's a relic.
I have always been interested in sound recording systems, despite not working in the sector, however, I had the opportunity to watch the recording of 2 discs in a studio that had a 2-inch tape recorder with 8 tracks, first in 1971 and then at the end of the 80s.
I would like to know, if possible, what the title of that song that played at minute 8:25 is, I know the song I heard many years ago, I would be very grateful if that were possible.
Thank you very much, congratulations on the project.
Unfortunately, I’m not sure about the song title. Did you try using an app like Shazam or Siri to identify it?
@@AudioUniversity
I used the AHA music PC application and it was unable to identify it.
Thank you anyway.
Hug.
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Along with Ampex, 3M was pivotal in the formulation of higher fidelity tape that made the tape-recording process artistically and economically feasible, even when Ampex started spinning multiple heads around in a drum assembly. I've worked on a bunch of machines, Scully, Ampex, MCI (USA), Sony, Studer, Otari... I was the guy they called to align and calibrate the Ampex VRX/M4 Quad machines; you know the funny quadrature scanning monsters found in most TV facilities of the era.
I worked with Ampex quad video recorders in the early 1980's at the BBC in London. It was claimed that the BBC had the largest inventory of heads in the world (more than Ampex) Mainly VR2000 but the odd pair of VR1200.
@@garethonthetubeOnce aligned, you almost wanted to voice a chant of amazement! Think I still have my Tektronics NTSC gen.
I restore quad machines, and have worked on every model of AMPEX machines from the VR-1000 to the ACR 25.
RCA sucked!
I've Been in video tape since its invention
@@rty1955 Indeed, we called those RCA's "The Witch". I found their RF gear more befitting their legacy, particularly the klystron powered transmitters.
The main reason Bing Crosby help fund the beginning of AMPEX was because magnetic tape opened a legal loophole that freed him from a restrictive live-radio performance contract. He was supposed to travel around the country and perform live at various radio stations, and if he missed a show he had to pay a penalty. The contract specifically barred him from substituting a shellac or bakelite 78 rpm record for an actual in-person performance, but the contract didn't disallow the use of a performance that was recorded on magnetic tape, so Crosby provided the radio stations with tape machines and pre-recorded live performances of himself on magnetic tape.
Went through a lot of blades editing.
Alexander M. Poniatoff
was the founder of AMPEX.
The first 3 letters were his intials the last 2 stood for Excellence.
It's pretty amazing what humans have done in the last 100 years of existence
The music that is being played at 08:30, where is that from? It sounds like a movie soundtrack.
I had the same question and tried searching with the Shazam app but didn't get an identification. Possibly an obscure piece of music chosen to avoid a copyright strike.
I have Strymon Deco, and it changed recording industry again. (In a good way)
If anyone can point me towards some reading on the very early years of commercial tape recording, i.e., the late 1940s to (very) early 1950s, I would appreciate it greatly, as there doesn't seem to be much information online. Tape's use by major labels, use within different genres (I'm particulalry interested in jazz and classical) and how those early tapes sound and are preserved is some of the stuff I'd love to learn about.
Fascinating. "The recording curve performs the inverse function, reducing low frequencies and boosting high frequencies. The RIAA equalization curve was intended to operate as a de facto global industry standard for records since 1954, but when the change actually took place is difficult to determine." Wikipedia
re: "global industry standard for records"
The "RIAA curve" refers to the curve used for vinyl cutting and playback, and is ENTIRELY DIFFERENT than the curves applied to tape recording.
Here is tape bias explained in detail: www.thehistoryofrecording.com/Papers/Jay_McKnight/Biasing_in_Magnetic_Tape_Recording.pdf
Actually AC bias was invented by Carlson & Carpenter in 1921 @ AT&T. Others "accidentaly discovered" it 17 years later.
Soon after 1940 many magnetic recorder makers started using this AC bias.
Video tape machines needed a MUCH higher (6Mhz) bandwidth to record, so FM rather tham AM had to be used as well rotating heads that rotated at 14,400rpm and were perpendicular to the tape, giving a much higher writing speed
I was a stage tech at who trained in the mid nineties. I learned on a Revox and as soon as we finished training they bought mini discs.
Bah.
The Next Video Should Be
High Speed Tape Duplication
8 Tracks and Cassettes in a Horizontal Vacuum Chamber To Pancakes
LES PAUL !!
Magnetic recording discovered simultaneously all accross the globe...or...a very busy Spy ring operating out of an abandoned cinema in New Jersey?
0:54 Harvey Korman? 😉
Deficient interviewer, but the museum curator has a lot of interesting history. I have owned several different tape recorders. My neighbor had a wire recorder, but I never saw it working. In high school we had nice Wollansak recorders. I had a stereo tape recorder that was pretty dodgy. In the '80s I bought an NAD cassette recorder, along with an NAD amplifier and good speakers. I recorded a lot of over the air music. Although those tapes still play very well, I have copied them all to DAT, which I digitized to store as WAV files. I also make audio CDs from my archived recordings. The DAT recorder will not record over the air.
Why won't a DAT recorder record over the air ? It has analogue inputs as well, does it not ?
@@CaptainDarrick Everything is analog, and digital do not record codes can be sent over the air embedded in the audio signal.
Great video, Kyle! Thanks for the history lesson. It’s important! I have been lucky to use an Otari MX80 and also a Mara. Both 24 track. The Mara’s are totally refurbished MCI’s. Both yield an incredible tone. My college instructor is a fan of tape. He’s old school and went through the analog to digital transition. He still is part owner of a recording studio in Sacramento (Paradise). Some of his works include Cake and Tesla.
Here’s one of the very first 16 track recordings. They used an Ampex MM-1000. The year was 1968. The recording is nothing less than stellar. The drum mix is phenomenal. czcams.com/video/6ltXpCYDXKg/video.html
Just to point out that Bing gave Ampex 75k $ to make a tape that would be capable of editing because he was so fed up with starting again if he made a mistake.
That's not the main reason that Crosby funded Ampex. He had a restrictive contract that required him to sing for live radio broadcasts from radio stations around the country; The contract specifically said that he could not substitute records for an in person performance but it didn't say anything about magnetic tape which was a new and relatively unknown technology at the time. Crosby was ultimately able to provide both reel to reel machines and pre-recorded tapes of him singing to the radio stations, and thereby didn't have to appear in person.
Tape sounds better than DAW!
You should lose the background music. It’s too quiet to be intelligible, not of the eta being discussed, and just sounds like distracting ambient noise or leakage.
I love the way you skip over the fact that Nazi Germany invented a working AC bias by saying the 'allies discovered it during WWII'.
So I guess after listening to THIS video I should discount everything that engineers from Ampex and Scully told me back in the 70's. SMH.
How so?
So you could argue that analog tape is actually digital!
Mmm how did u get that?? Analog recording is NOT digital at all
@@rty1955 OK it wasn't an entirely serious post. Consider the individual oxide particles. They can be magnetised north or south.
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Guys, social distancing is so 2020! Get over it.
I owned a Revox B77 open reel machine in the 1980s, by far the best-engineered device I've ever owned. Have we lost the ability to make such high quality machines?
👍🏻but make it Native! 😉
The technology becomes greater & greater & greater. Somehow the “new” music becomes worse & worse & worse. What gives? The same goes for the movies & book authors. Bummer.
New tech has destroyed music, this digital revolution is the downfall of art.
New tech would not have been invented unless there were issues with the old tech. For example, the issue of tape breakage and stretching and demagnetizing and falling apart and the expense of multitrack tape. Then after it sits around a few years it must be baked before it can be played again. New tech did not destroy music. It revived and restored old music.
Cheers.