EMI Studio DRM XDR Chromium Dioxide Audio Cassette

Going from yesterday’s epitome of 1970s lo-fi, to the other extreme – a 1990 paragon of audio cassette fidelity. High spec chromium-dioxide tape media, XDR quality control processing, Dolby HX Pro noise reduction, full digital remastering – all in a highly successful effort to bring a 1965 recording up to 1990s fidelity standards.

1992 TDK Super Avilyn Tape and Tascam Recording Paraphernalia

Another home multitrack recording time capsule – this time from the year 1992, when analogue tape-based formats were still very firmly at the forefront of the genre. Back then, the For Sale columns in the audio recording magazines headlined on Cassette Recorders and Reel to Reel, with Computing coming right at the end, after Percussion and Guitars.

Little Feat – Let It Roll Cassette

My previous post looked at the 1993 Buddy Guy album Feels Like Rain, which happened to feature Little Feat’s Bill Payne and Richie Hayward. This, in turn, took me back another five years for a revisit to Little Feat’s own album – Let It Roll.