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Some artists maintain that musical instruments may drift out of tune: It is not possible to keep instruments in tune for the length of the LP side. Which is why many professional musicians have always had to tune up their instruments themselves during live shows and often even in the middle of a
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Although the spontaneity of performance is preserved, no overdubbing or editing is possible. It becomes more challenging for the musicians, engineers and producers, whose performances will be captured "warts and all." In the event of aborted sides, expensive lacquers are wasted and cannot be used
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The first commercial release of Direct-to-disc microgroove LP records was from the Nippon Columbia label, in 1969 - the series entitled "Columbia 45rpm Direct Cutting Series". And in the mid-late 1970s, a small number of albums recorded direct-to-disc began to appear again on the market and were
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for subsequent pressing in the traditional manner. Although such tapes were often made to preserve the recordings in case the direct-to-disc process failed or the master disc became damaged before the final product could be produced, direct-to-disc albums were almost never re-issued as standard
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Technically, direct-to-disc recording is believed to result in a more accurate, less noisy recording through the elimination of up to four generations of master tapes, overdubs, and
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format in 1948, and these two technological advances are often seen as being joined, although 78 rpm records cut from tape masters continued to be manufactured for another decade.
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before the 1950s were made by cutting directly to a master disc. Recording via magnetic tape became the industry standard around the time of the creation of the
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which was re-released a few years later as a conventional LP mastered from the tapes recorded as a backup during the recording sessions for the album.
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from multi-tracked masters. The method bypasses problems inherent in analog recording tape such as
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This article is about a format for analog record master creation. For digital storage systems, see
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To make a direct-to-disc recording, musicians would typically play one 15-minute "live" set in a
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Such a direct-to-disc recording was often simultaneously recorded onto a two-track
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recording and record audio directly onto analog disc masters.
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albums made from tape masters. One exception to this was
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side without any serious musical or technical mistakes."
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refers to sound recording methods that bypass the use of
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and is not stopped until the entire side is complete.
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