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Originally Posted by MicShazam
I really dislike the clearly limited recording equipment on records that old. Basically, I don't bother with anything recorded before the 60's. I can enjoy songs the origins of which are older than that. Even several hundred years older! ... but they have to have been recorded on gear that actually sounds nice.
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As my post above states, in my view there's not a thing wrong with 50s country that was recorded well (the examples I gave). It's actually the Chet Atkins era forward where the production becomes a negative.
As a rule, I don't have any problem with recordings that reflect their era. In fact, I can't listen to modern blues and rockabilly because it sounds too pristine, and lacks the character the original studios (Chess and Sun, in particular) brought to the recordings.
Atkins may have had better equipment, but in my view he didn't put it to the best use.