analog recording
Americannoun
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a method of sound recording in which an input audio waveform is converted to an analogous waveform.
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a record or audiotape made by this method.
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“Shaping Sounds” offers considerable technical information about microphones, recording equipment and studio layout—a valuable document from the era of analog recording.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The secret sauce, though, is in the way he cycles Lee and Anderson’s voice tracks through an analog recording process that makes them sound otherworldly.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2025
He has become synonymous with his DIY-ethos and his proselytization of analog recording methods.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2023
The album title references the seminal soul label, but it’s hardly a throwback record: mixing analog recording techniques and clusters of synth tones, dropping in lovely piano-driven melodies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2018
It was an era of analog recording and idealized natural sounds.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2017
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