MUSIC Digital sonics by no means free of glitches
The problem with technology, at least when used in creating music, is that it gives with one hand and takes away with the other. The technological advances in recording and sound production have profoundly changed the way most kinds of music are made. But it has not always been for the better; indeed it has been mostly for the worse. One device common in recordings of popular music (far less classical or jazz) is the use of isolated recordings for each instrument. In popular music recordings until the 1960s and into the 1970s, the bands would play together. Producing a…