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Name: 2000 Man
E-Mail: latrobe33@gmail.com
Subject: RE: Analog v Digital (nsc)
Date: Thursday, August 2, 2012
Time: 9:56:52 AM
Remote Address: 75.118.117.163
Message ID: 270549
Parent ID: 270540
Thread ID: 270538
Without bringing everything involved in, these days the main difference between digital and analog in a recording studio is probably the board they use to record everything and the type of gear used to mix and master the tape. An analog board means all effects need to be done with knobs and sliders on copies of the master tape. In digital the master tape can still be tape (DAT), but it's still recorded like on a hard drive, and they use computer software for all the mixing, effects and editing.
Then end result is generally a warmer sound, and they may have just used an analog tape and board to record it and all digital to mix, edit and master. So when someone says it's an analog recording these days, it's probably not 100% analog (though it might be).
The difference between the two is that the analog tape supposedly has every piece of information on it, and the digital version, using 1's and 0's by definition does sampling and misses parts of the music. I tend to like the way records sound more than cd's, but I also think that's got just as much to do with the way they're mastered as anything else. One way is not necessarily better than the other.
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