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Originally Posted by SteveMacD
All of those overdubs made that album sound so much better than “Fleetwood Mac,” “Rumours,” or “Tusk,” which were 24 tracks.
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The above is technically correct, but at the same time not accurate. They used multiple 24 track consoles for Rumours. It is complicated and time consuming to record and mix this way and technology has now certainly allowed for almost infinite multiplication of tracks, but Rumours era Fleetwood Mac was well ahead of its time in multi-tracking. The 24 tracks would end up with the equivalent of 50-60 tracks on the final 24 track mix. They cut, spliced and inserted newly recorded pieces over and within prior recordings on a track and compiled sound on top of sound without saturating the tape. Something ProTools would make far easier many years later. Of course eventually Rumours was mixed with ProTools 5.1 Surround, bringing more of these layers to our ears.
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