Era 1: Direct to tape recording c1950-63: Premixing, Mono, Dead spots, One-take, Proximity, Slapback echo, WEM Copicat, Shure 55s, Synchronous, FX applied to whole mix, Era 2: Early multi-track recording 1964-69: Bouncing down, Asynchronous, Recording drums with 2 or 3 mics, Polarised panning, Dropping-in (editing), Era 3: Large-scale analogue recording c1968-95: 96-channel desks, Writing an album in the studio, Recording drums with 8+ mics, Very easy editing of individual parts, FX applied to each part individually, Recording analogue synths, Drums and vox usually panned C, Graduated panning, Era 5: DAWs and digital recording c1996-present: Limitless multi-tracking, Autotune, Software samplers and synths, MP3, WAV, Quantise, Automation, Convolution reverb, Plugins, Combining audio and sequenced tracks (easily), Era 4: Digital recording and sequencing - non-DAW - (c1980-present): Hardware samplers, Hardware sequencers, MIDI, TR-808 drum machine, Yamaha DX-7 synth,

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