Sunday, July 6, 2008

This Day in Studio History

It was on this day in 1998 that the Studio first used the audio editing software Cool Edit. With this program the songs could now be mixed down from the 4-track master into the computer and be edited with effects, cleaned up, or re-arranged. Once the songs were finished in Cool Edit they were put in a play list and the cassette copies of an album were made from that list.

Prior to this software, once a song was recorded on the 4-track master it was finished, it just needed mixed down. But now songs, or parts of the songs, could be changed after they were recorded. This new process was first used for the Isthmus album Parabolic Dish Festival Volume 1 which was released in July of 1998.

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