Before the days of automation, studios would essentially have to call in help from other people (aside from on site engineers) to manually operate a mixing board and adjust faders, knobs, or any other settings that needed to be adjusted in real time while a mix was taking place. Automation in the DAW replaced an “All hands on deck” approach to the mixing board. Some on the other hand revered this aspect and found ways to work with this trait to make it part of the creative process.Īnother note when discussing tape recordings and the lack of computer recorded audio was the absence of automation, the process of computer guided perimeter adjustments. Noise and distortion were two common artifacts that were almost always present and to some considered a nuisance. Up until 1970 this was the standard.Īlthough some argue that music sounded better due to the inherent sound of recording to tape, the process wasn’t without its noticeable characteristics which some might argue were less than desirable. Before the days of the DAW, musicians, studios and engineers were limited to their available technology, which was recording audio on a reel to reel tape machine. One of the DAW’s main purposes, aside from composing and being used in the creative writing process, is the recording process.
The DAW’s existence and evolution has allowed musicians to not only create music more efficiently, but has also helped to spark a creative revolution bringing about a movement that has helped foster a generation of new music genre’s that once did not exist.
The DAW, otherwise known as Digital Audio Workstation, might seem commonplace in today’s technologically advanced world, but this technology has had a long evolution from the primordial days of analog reel to reel.
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