@mrdecibel
A great example of an exquisite "studio, multi track" recording, would be "Welcome to the Pleasuredome"
Thanks for this pointer - I will explore!
Seems to me from the dates that this would have been an all analog recording, released just after the launch of CDs.
What I am most interested in finding out is how digital PCM multi-track recordings have been re-mixed digitally, especially for rock music. Each PCM sample is a whole number, and mixing involves taking a fraction of one sample and adding the result to fractions of other samples. In general, there will be rounding errors, whether the whole number is thought of as binary or decimal. The more tracks, the more the rounding errors, I would have thought