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Paul, I'm not saying the SPARS code is wrong, I'm just saying it doesn't cover the mixing of the album and you can't always say a cd with a code of DDD was kept all digital, only that it was recorded digitally. The code doesn't say anything about how it was mixed. You are getting at the...

I'm not saying the Spars code is wrong. I'm just saying I don't think the album was mixed digitally. I may be wrong about that, but I don't think so. Hopefully someone else around can confirm or correct me. Just because the liner notes say it was a digital recording doesn't mean it was kept as...

Well, it couldn't have been mixed digitally if there weren't any digital consoles out yet. Even when I was in school from 90-94, there was no way to get a digital signal out of the Sony 24 track decks. There was no all digital signal path from mic to cd in the early 90's, so I don't think there...

I could be wrong about this, but my recollection of the SPARS code is 1. The original recording medium. (A or D) 2. The mix down (two track) medium. (A or D) 3. The medium in your hands, which in the case of cd is always digital (D). So DDD would mean it was recorded digitally and mixed...

There weren't any digital mixing desks in the early 80's, it was mixed on a Neve console, which is analog. I would bet it was mixed down to analog 2 track as well.

From Mix Magazine:

When I started college in '90 going for my audio engineering degree, we had two sony 24 track digital tape machines. They were both 16/48 on all tracks. They were the best made at the time, so I would guess BIA was recorded on something similar. We don't know what it was mixed to, 2 track analog...