CLASSIC TRACKS: Madonna 'Like a Virgin' (Sound on Sound Magazine article)

One of the best in this series of articles from Sound on Sound that I've read. Great recollections and detail from original engineer Jason Corsaro. Amazing that the finished mix was only 12 bit... :

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep07/articles/classictracks_0907.htm

 

I always enjoy reading these articles. Thanks for spotlighting this one.

 

Cool article, thanks. I was just thinking about the sound on this album yesterday, and the article completely explains it.

 

Thank you for posting this

 

Thanks!

 

Thanks for this! I just played both the original CD and the remaster, and I have come away with a new appreciation for this album and Madonna. And, I never realized how much went into this album, Tony Thompson's extremely hard playing, and what a difference a simple change in a studio could do. I never realized that his drumming was such a major factor in this album.

"Like A Virgin" has always been one of my all-time favorite albums.

One thing is that I always thought it was a 16-bit master mix. It's 12-bits!

BTW, guys, for all the people who slag off Madonna, just think: she did her vocals without any pitch correction. And, she still could sing. A lot of people probably thought she just came in for the vocals, but she was there through the entire process from start to finish, and made hard decisions.