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Never having worked in the industry or having much of a direct interest in the technology, I wonder how much of this can be blamed on the radio stations and how much can be blamed on the original recordings? I remember audio tape becoming more prevalent in the 60s with four-track, eight-track, and cassettes, and aside from being more "convenient" never felt audio tape was a suitable replacement for vinyl records--far less reliable, and audibly lacking in the "richer" tones. And this has only become more pronounced as technology has "improved" and gone from audio tapes to compact discs to almost everything being recorded, produced, and broadcast electronically. Add to that the modern trend to over-produce every nanosecond that's recorded--auto tuning, filtering, filtering again, then again, adjust that note that's just a bit flat, add this bit that was recorded by a studio musician six months after the band left the studio, and so on--and the human element has almost been completely removed. At this rate it won't be long before human band members will become obsolete, and the only person in the studio will be the computer geek writing a program that'll make his laptop sing like Katy Perry.
