Bread - Guitar Man -1972 - Pop- -flac 24-192- ^new^ Jun 2026

Happy listening, and keep the needle (or the bits) down.

The original master tapes of Guitar Man were recorded on analog 16-track or 24-track machines running at 15 or 30 inches per second (ips). In 1972, the dynamic range of pop music was not yet sacrificed to the "Loudness War." When Elektra Records’ engineer, Armin Steiner, captured Gates’ guitar, the transient spikes—the attack of a pick on a phosphor-bronze string—had a rise time measurable in microseconds. Bread - Guitar Man -1972 - Pop- -Flac 24-192-