Digital Or Analog

[Plastered Bastards]

Which is your personal preference in a recording studio?
Mine is analog,because tape captures a mood and a feel.
Also I think it comes from growing up and listening to a ton of vinyl.
Whatta ya think?

[HurricaneBob]

Ive done both, Dave has a 2" tracker at data music...i think its still there?
But digital recording is so much easier on the muso's and engineer.
Digi still cannot replace the warm punchy bass analog sets forth.
Vinyl here too.

[Chuxema]

Which is your personal preference in a recording studio?
Mine is analog,because tape captures a mood and a feel.
Also I think it comes from growing up and listening to a ton of vinyl.
Whatta ya think?

I agree 100% old man.
On another note........
When are you fuckers
playing Altoona again?

P.S. The vinyl rules.
Pat grabbed me a copy
last time you were here
because I was working.

Cheers!

[Plastered Bastards]

Glad you liked the LP,we would like to play Altoona but no one has the stones to invite us.LOL

[Chuxema]

Maybe once I get this new band
going we can do some shit.
Shouldn't take too fucking long.

[DirtySanchez]

Glad you liked the LP,we would like to play Altoona but no one has the stones to invite us.LOL

Fedup loves having you guys out to jam with us.
I'll be talking to Jason about getting some aldo's shows, and we'll definitely be looking to hook you up after you get back from touring.

Chuck, You should come out to Pittsburgh with us next weekend. I'm pretty sure Justin and Pat are coming. Might even get Joe's ass out for this. Fedup Morgue Mart and The Plastered Bastards. It's gonna be a blast.

[Chuxema]

Chuck, You should come out to Pittsburgh with us next weekend. I'm pretty sure Justin and Pat are coming. Might even get Joe's ass out for this. Fedup Morgue Mart and The Plastered Bastards. It's gonna be a blast.

I would but I'm going to be spending most of my free time
the next few weeks doing some home renovations and starting
school. Thanx for the invite though. We'll have to get together
sometime soon for a beer or twelve.

Cheers!

[BloodyFingers]

I use both. Analog mixer and computer for recording. I run M-Audio Delta 44. 4 i/o....... I use a 4 sub mixer and it works together great. I put together a nice jamming system. If you want to know more about it pm me. Thanks Gary

[coffin feeder]

i say analog cause i like the older recordings. but maybe a hybrid of old analog put onto a digitl format, but nothing enhanced. my cousin converted his old vinyl and some casettes to digital, and burned them onto a cd. so it retains the warmth and the shitty part is that if theres a section on the vinyl that sounds scratchy, tough shit cause it is on the cd forever. you are stuck with whatever quality you started with in the beginning.

[coffin feeder]

numark and others are selling brand new turntables with a usb port built into the side made specifically for converting vinyl to digital. how cool is that?

[BloodyFingers]

i say analog cause i like the older recordings. but maybe a hybrid of old analog put onto a digitl format, but nothing enhanced. my cousin converted his old vinyl and some casettes to digital, and burned them onto a cd. so it retains the warmth and the shitty part is that if theres a section on the vinyl that sounds scratchy, tough shit cause it is on the cd forever. you are stuck with whatever quality you started with in the beginning.

I have a program for recording vynal and it will take 95% of your sratches out. Let me know if you want to try it ?

[metalchurch]

Gary, can you convert Vinyl to digital Cd format, and burn a cd?
If so, I have two albums that I need done.
€zzY €zbourne - Blizzard of €zz
€zzY €Zbourne - Bark at the Moon
I have these both on CD already, but the Blizzard album is the version that Ozzy re-recored the Bass and Drums, and it sounds like shit.
And my Bark At the Moon Cd is the ReMastered version and it sounds like shit also.

It's hard to find originals of these two.

Thanks man,
Lemmy know

[FrigoRecording]

Well I'm a guy with an all digital studio, but I sometimes wear this hat that says "Long Live Analog."

I have certainly done my share of recording to 2" 24 track, but for the rates I would have to charge to maintain an analog machine, buy tape, etc, it doesn't make sense for me to go that route, at least not here in central PA!

The thing we love about analog is the way it distorts the signal when the tape saturates and adds something nice to the sound. In the world of digital, we use various plug-ins to help re-create some of that natural analog sound, with some success. The point is that some distortion is desirable and pleasing to our ears. I remember the first time I mixed something on an all digital board back in the mid '90s, and when I turned the knobs on the EQ, something was missing as I was trying to bring out the mids and get some presence in some of the tracks. Analog circuitry distorts naturally, and in the world of digital, that needs to be emulated in order to get the same pleasing results. Kind of a strange approach, but it's certainly a trade-off!

Mixing in the digital domain has certainly come a long way since then, but it's still a different process for me to mix "in-the-box", doing all my processing from withing Pro Tools, but I've learned to get what I want out of it, and whose to say it would have been better if I had done it on analog tape, and mixed on an analog board? My clients leave the studio incredibly pleased with my work, and come back time and time again, so I guess the bottom line is to make the mix sound amazing - whatever that might mean to each individual client!

Also, a lot of what we hear these days in modern recordings done digitally as opposed to older recordings done on analog tape is simply a change in the way things are mixed. Even when things are recorded and mixed on analog tape, using an analog board, most engineers are going for a sound completely different than was typical of the mixes of say the 1960's or 1970's. Just as musical styles change as time goes on, so does the style of mixing. That's not to say that we can't mix in the way we did back in the '70's. I mixed a song in 1997 called "Larry Boy" for the popular Veggie Tales children's video series, and our approach was very much to mix it to sound more like a record from the '70's rather than one from the '90's, so it can be done, whether in the world of digital or analog!

As for vinyl as opposed to CD, that's a whole other discussion. There are absolutely differences there, but it looks like some form of digital is here to stay (hopefully it will get much better than CD and mp3), and vinyl will hang in there as long as it can!

Anyway, that's just my 2 cents!