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I would say that bad recording may not happen as much today as it did in the past. Think of King Crimson and In the Court and Aqualung, both I believe had issues with the tape machine alignment of tape heads. For KC, that cut off the highs pretty hard, this is where that muffly sound comes from.
Most of what we eventually hear is all due to bad production and mastering, and especially in mixing an album. Albums from the 60s that suffered from lack of bass, that could have been done on purpose, some bass was cut due to the consumer equipment in use at the time, cartridges and tonearms that could not track these frequencies without severe mistracking, skipping or arms jumping out of the groove. This was the case for original BlueNote jazz records that Rudy Van Gelder recorded, cartridges could not track his recording so he would cut the bass back when cutting records.
We don't have that issue with today's analog gear.
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

I've made comments about bands/music that is not recorded "live" in studio and how some of that magic is simply missing......Those comments were dismissed by others. That is unfortunate that people cannot hear what is missing in music that is recorded separately and then emailed back and forth and pieced together....To me this is one of the downsides of the whole digital thing.


I'd say it depends on what type of music you are making. The "live magic" may be missing in studio recordings with overdubs, but then the "studio magic" may sometimes be missing in live performances as well. Trying to record, say, classical music by overdubbing will probably cause miserable results, and the same goes for a lot of jazz. But then there is music where studio experimentation and sound production is a big part of the overall expression.
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