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Right now I'm recording a catalog of 60s and 70s Pop and Rock favorites from my youth and having a blast trying to figure out how they sounded so good.

I am also amazed at how good an overall song can sound once the music is meshed into the whole recording with effects, mixing, ...

Bass thumper, I would love to hear some of what you've learned through these exercises, of course on a song-by-song basis. In fact, I had a similar idea for learning in this way which I had posted to the Jamzone Forum (I'll list it below) - are there any forums or online groups where people discuss and analyze why the recording of a particular song sounds so good ?

(my Jamzone Post)

I absolutely love Jamzone - as a guitar player I often couldn't clearly hear the guitar parts when trying to figure songs out by ear...nor could I clearly hear bass lines - the only 'shortcoming" - understandable of course, is that the tracks aren't isolations of the original recordings ; )
That said, from a learning perspective (both musically and mixing) - it's interesting to try and compare the versions of the originals to the cover bands, to see what makes one sound better than the other.
Have any of you compared some of the original recordings with the Jamzone covers, and could comment whether "excellent / good / ok / passable but nothing to write home about / I won't use this one " ? Vocals are pretty easy to compare - we can all hear and relate to voice, but instruments on the other hand usually take someone that plays well to give accurate comments.
This might actually open up some more interesting conversations on a song-by-song discussion of "What makes {Song Title} original recording sound better than the Jamzone version"....no offence to the cover bands of course (none should be taken)

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