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Steely Dan (and frineds) analog vs. digital
Interesting quotes on analog vs. digital from an article on Steely Dan's
latest album, which was recorded live in the studio, to analog tape. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug...s/steelydan.htm "Yet Becker is at pains to point out that the medium alone can't deliver great sound. "It was not necessarily a question of how good analogue sounded. It's a question of how good analogue sounds if you happen to have Elliot Scheiner and a great bunch of musicians in the room. Analogue has all sorts of problems associated with it, along with the potential to sound very good. And not only is Elliot a real pro in dealing with these problems, he also gets the most out of the creative possibilities that analogue offers. Just walking into a studio with analogue tape machines isn't going to buy you anything." .... Elliot Scheiner (mixer): "I grew up and learned analogue and I'm an analogue geek. It's not that I'm kicking digital, but analogue has a much better sound. When you are able to A/B analogue and digital, which we could do in this case, there's simply no comparison. The top end is so sweet and beautiful. I've never heard anyone say about digital, even at 24-bit/96kHz or 192kHz: 'Isn't the top end as sweet and beautiful as you've ever heard?' You don't because digital just doesn't sound that way." Scheiner stresses that he isn't claiming that analogue gives a more truthful representation of reality. "Analogue changes something in the sound," he elaborates, "but I think it does something good. By contrast, digital is pristine and sterile. On the other hand, it has great things about it. There's nothing better than be able to fly stuff around or tune it in a digital workstation. That's really outstanding. And I don't think every project should be recorded on analogue. You have to look at it on a case-by-case basis. When you consider that the majority of today's music is rather lo-fi, then it's really not that important what you record it on. But there are some projects that command that importance." |
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"Scheiner stresses that he isn't claiming that analogue gives a more
truthful representation of reality. "Analogue changes something in the sound," Which is of course what has been observed for a long time now, it changes something past the mic that sounds "good" because of the added distortions, not unlike the boom boom car guy with the smile on his 10 band eq knows his "sound" is "good". Do we want what the artist puts out or what the knob fiddlers do to it afterwards? What is needed is that someone make a black box that adds the analog distortions, just like the kid wants the 10 band eq, to make their cd "sound good". |
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They've been out for a while now, but there is always someone to
complain about them also... -Bill www.uptownaudio.com Roanoke VA (540) 343-1250 wrote in message ... "Scheiner stresses that he isn't claiming that analogue gives a more truthful representation of reality. "Analogue changes something in the sound," Which is of course what has been observed for a long time now, it changes something past the mic that sounds "good" because of the added distortions, not unlike the boom boom car guy with the smile on his 10 band eq knows his "sound" is "good". Do we want what the artist puts out or what the knob fiddlers do to it afterwards? What is needed is that someone make a black box that adds the analog distortions, just like the kid wants the 10 band eq, to make their cd "sound good". |