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I decided to fact-check one random thing while skimming the article, and of course the article got it wrong. Makes me wary of the whole thing. > With the addit
by chmod775 8y ago
I decided to fact-check one random thing while skimming the article, and of course the article got it wrong. Makes me wary of the whole thing.
> With the addition of multi -track recording, invented by jazz guitarist Les Paul, another golden age of recording began.
No he didn't. He was just the first person to buy a system capable of doing so [1], though he had some influence on the development of that particular system. In reality it was a lot of incremental work by many different people. There was also people experimenting with "homemade" stuff long before the first commercial system.
Giving all the credit to the one guy who was already famous, just because he happens to be a known figure, always irks me.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_multitrack_recording https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_multitrack_recordin...