Music How technologically dated is early anime vocal music?

[Yoshi1001]

This, to me, is an interesting comparison point between the original and the dub. While the initial dub songs do stand up fairly well fidelity-wise to modern recordings, but the Japanese tracks seem like they used more analog equipment and have a bit more of an early-to-mid 90's quality to them, up until about Ready Go!. Maybe it was a conscious design choice. Any thoughts?

 

[ashita]

I dunno really i think the dub songs now sound a lot more modern IMo than the old ones but i still prefer the Japanese music generally over the dub regardless of what generation its from

 

[Dogasu]

but the Japanese tracks seem like they used more analog equipment

That's probably exactly what ended up happening. The show's animation has always been behind the curve - they didn't switch to digital coloring and, later, HD until well after most of its contemporaries had already converted over - so it's not hard to imagine that the audio would be just as slow at adapting to the times.