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Originally posted by Rolf Maier Bode yeah, that Akai S-1000 was everywhere... some people used E-MUs instead (like klaus jankuhn > westbam/marusha...) My early productions [RMB Trax] where with only an Atari, an S-1100 a Roland JD-990 (for all modulated stuff!) and a cheap "boss" 16 channel mixer. An Alpha Juno came and go... Redemption was done with an Atari Falcon [8 channel HD recording! but miserable timing!] the S-1100, JD-990 and some FX devices (reverb= sony R7) and a not soooo trashy analog mixer (soundcraft i think) Everything was still live + MIDI sequenced into an analog mixer to DAT. Mid-90s the studio grew: Mackie 8-Bus, Lexicon FX, JV 1080, Analog Modular, TL-Audio EQ+Compressor... The biggest differences to 2000-todays production are: no complex sounds/modulations, no super "big" sounds, not many FXs BUT everything went through an analog mixer - and that was often "in the red" Since in-the-box is typical everything is full with modulated full-spectrum-noises plus FX on each track, everything compressed, distorted and limited DIGITALLY... no wonder it sounds totally different. But the biggest differnce between 90s and 2013s music to my mind is: There was much much less music then. Even the biggest label like Low Spirit had just a few releases every month... it was much more work and higher costs to release something.... that led to selection... nowadays soundcloud, beatport, iTunes & co flood the "market" with thousands of new releases every week.... THAT makes a difference!

Very interesting, thanks for sharing this.

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