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How High the Moon

The great guitar pioneer Les Paul, who died today at the age of 94, demonstrates the art of multi-tracking:

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    C. Park Seward

    This is not an example of multi-tracking but overdubbing. That is where you record on one mono machine and then play it back to record on another machine with the new content. Notice the shot of the two Ampex audio recorders in the clip. It is not 26 “tracks” but rather 26 layers or voices.

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