That’s probably how it went, who knows how the reality of these situations played out most of the time. Most people don’t make a movie about it though.
Analog recording is dying because at the end of the day the music industry isn’t losing any money by killing it off. Or perhaps “letting it die” is more accurate.
recording to tape is pretty much dead except in rare cases… but recording through consoles happens a ton and will for a long time. recording through nice mic pres etc isn’t going away… but not everyone needs/wants a mixer workflow… but for some people it’s a great solution… but ain’t cheap and all that… pros/cons lists are different for all…
That’s just it, to a lot of producers who actually do work, a plug-in or new mix desk is just as good. Fetishists (me included) think oooooh sexy neve time, and you end up with super expensive niche products with a silkscreened neve signature on them.
At this point an original neve console (or anything else neve) is so inaccessible it’s just something you talk about, not a reality. Maybe 15 or so years ago the guys I was making music with and I recorded at this nice bay area studio that has a neve console and it really does sound incredible. I suppose it could be placebo or ear hallucinations but it felt like being a time traveler sitting there.
Tenchō is a japanese word for store manager / shop manager, I read some supposition online that the guy who appears next to the word tencho on that pocket operator is supposed to be the boss in the scene (it was referring to tonic though, so I don’t know about the KO specifically).