Image: Hitsville U.S.A. Studio A control room (2005-10-08 13.40.40 by Global Reactions)

Description: Again, you don't need high-tech to make great music CONTROL ROOM This Control Rooms buzzed with activity from 1959 to 1972. The years in which most of Motown's hit records were made. During this period, Hitsville USA and "Studio A" were open 24 hours a day. The controller of the session, Berry Gordy and/or young recording engineer(s) who had been taught by Berry, would stand or sit at the console table, tapping their feet to the beat and wearing holes into the floor, whole they monitored and balanced the sounds as the songs were being recorded in Studio A. Early Motown sessions were recorder on a two-track recording console. In these sessions, the singers recorded on one track and musicians on the other track. After the session, these two tracks were mixed down to one track tape, in preparation for making a record. Some of the early songs recorded on two tracks were: "Shop Around" by the Miracles, "Please Mr. Postman" by the Marvelettes, "Do You Love Me" by the Contours, and others. The two track console table was replaced by the three track console table exhibited here By 1965, Motowns's own electronic engineers ... this console to 8-track ... recording
Title: Hitsville U.S.A. Studio A control room (2005-10-08 13.40.40 by Global Reactions)
Credit: Again, you don't need high-tech to make great music
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