One of our favorite mashup artists Pogo samples sound bytes from the movie in his latest track, mastering it into a delightful, electro-pop, toe-tapper.
Mr. Shepard, an intense, bespectacled man who is head of RCA's classical division, was auditioning a twenty-track master tape of "Sunday" that had been assembled from raw material obtained during a two-day studio recording session.
As soon as Mr. Sondheim approved the master tape, Mr. Shepard went on, the twenty individual channels would be mixed into a two-track master, and that would be used to cut the commercial record.
Jammit uses the original multi-track master recordings in its catalog so that users can tune into instrument-specific samples — for guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, and vocals.
Ezrin later related the band's alarm at this method of working – they apparently viewed the erasure of material from the 24-track master as "witchcraft".
The 16-track recordings from these sessions were mixed down and copied onto a 24-track master, as guide tracks for the rest of the band to play to.
Novoselic said that after the band recorded the song, Vig cut out the bridge from the 16-track master tape with a razor blade and threw it in the garbage.
This gave the engineers greater flexibility, but also improved the audio quality of the final mix as the original 16-track drum recordings were finally synced to the 24-track master, and the duplicated guide tracks removed.
So, years and years ago, someone pulled out a master tape, but it was for the 8-track master and it was compressed to death, and they had been sending that around the world as the master for about 10 or 12 years.
