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 | | Studios employed recordists, mix engineers, mastering engineers and session musicians - these technicians optimally captured the musicians' performance via the recording process and maximized the sonic potential of the recording through technical enhancements which would ultimately be output as a master recording. |
 | | This technology had relatively little impact on recording studios, which would still continue to utilize primarily analog recording technologies to create music recordings, but it did significantly impact mastering facilities and manufacturing plants who would be responsible for preparing and replicating the digital media for mass distribution to retail outlets. |
 | | Innovations such as virtual instruments (playable software replicas of almost any conceivable instrument - from synths and samplers to realistic renditions of traditional acoustic instruments) and virtual effects (equalizers, compressors, reverbs, etc.) began creating a new studio concept - the virtual studio, a studio that resides almost entirely inside a typical desktop or laptop computer. |
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