The Band was all pre digital but importantly for both Big Pink and The Basement Tapes ( Dylan w The Band backing ) imo the sound quality and feel come from 3 things
recording relatively stress free at “
home “, almost direct to RtR with minimal tracks so simple submixers used and no fix it in the mix mentality, finally relatively simple but musical Revox A and B series machines required them to play live together....
I got The Basement Tapes ( MoFi ) on right now....