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Originally Posted by
ddy
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ups, sorry - for some strange reasons, i didn't get to read any newer posts?!
anyway, i just wanted to mention that a friend of mine who is deeply rooted in the tango tradition (even pre-tango nuevo) wanted to steer one track of a modern album recording of his orquesta not-so-típica into the direction of the early era...
...and was pleased to hear that collapsing to mono, limited dynamics and frequency range, the use of filters, intentional distortion (mainly on vocals) plus adding the (fake) crackling of vinyl got him close enough to what he wanted to hear! ;-)
Of course, plugins are far more convenient and definitely convincing to achieve that sort of thing - I use it all the time in my radio work if I need to have something sound this or that way. Easy does it. But wouldn’t it be so much more fun, more enlightening, more fulfilling if you would in that case at least use a nice single ribbon mic, try to find the best spot, reorganize the group and do a one-taker? I get that doing direct to disc with a lacquer is a bridge too far for most of us, but still: trying to apply some of these constraints might be so rewarding!
At least, that is my take on these things. If you want to know more about the Tour de France, you could get a car and drive the route, through all the mountains and beautiful windings roads, but if you really want to get a better understanding, a physical, sensory understanding of it: get on a bicycle!