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Dire Straits made one of the first all-digital albums

Brothers in Arms was recorded, mixed and mastered digitally in 1985 The album was tracked on a Sony 24-track digital recorder at AIR Studios in Montserrat, then mixed and cut without an analogue tape stage, which the sleeve marked DDD. It became one of the first compact discs to sell in millions and helped push the new format into ordinary homes. It sits in Mondo's music collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Brothers in Arms was recorded, mixed and mastered digitally in 1985. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a music fact?: Yes. It sits on the Music shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.