The things people did with mixing in the 70s and 80s were revolutionary, and a lot of the sound you hear today was invented in that time. Things like the drum sound in "In the Air Tonight" with compression gating has been used ever since.

https://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/classic-drum-sounds-in-the-air-tonight-590970

[–] Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Incredible. I’m learning a ton and gaining a huge appreciation of it all thanks to everyone’s comments in this post.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

That's what good link aggregators are for.