Still with me? OK, moving on.Ĭonsumer tape recorders/players had enough tape for those two tracks, so we could have stereo (another article on its own). One played on the left speaker and one played on the right (the head had two of these, in case that wasn’t clear )). When the tape was pulled over the consumer player head, each track would be played separately by the a sensor on the head. If you could see tracks, you’d see two parallel stripes on the tape. Try to picture a 1-foot length of that brown tape from inside those cassettes we used to listen to music on. The reason why “regular people” didn’t have easy access to multitrack recording back in the day was that we used tape to record. But as cool as it is, it requires a bit of care in explanation. So what is it? We’re in the 2 nd paragraph and you haven’t defined it yet? Okay, I know. But in 2010, anyone can do it, and as long as you have a computer with an internet connection, it doesn’t have to cost you anything at all. In the 80s when I first started recording music (okay, you can stop counting now… )), multi track recording was not something a 15-year-old could afford to do without a major record deal or a family member who owned a studio.
Multitrack recording is one of the coolest things EVER.
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