Anyone have any pros and cons who like the sound rather than doing a typical
bounce?

Neil

Would the sound be noticbly warmer and would the sound be 6db hotter than just
running out to dat or m-link

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Sonikimage wrote:
Anyone have any pros and cons who like the sound rather than doing a typical
bounce?

Well, it's different. You're adding a D/A converter and a tape
recorder and tape to the equation, so that's going to change how
things sound. Use a bad DAC and you're stuck with that sound for a
long time. Fail to align your two track and the master won't be as
nice as it could.

Some people like the colorations of properly set up tape, but then
again, when everyone was mixing to tape because that's all that was
around, nobody monitored off of repro on the two track with the tape
rolling while they built the mix. In other words, people listened to
the console's output and expected the tape recorder to store something
as close as possible to what they sent to the two track. Basically,
people weren't using a two track as a signal processor, and most
competent two tracks didn't have all that much of a sonic signature.

Also, while there are things you can do to mess up a two track analog
recording, a few of the errors of analog tape (such as the low end
headbumps) are purely playback phenomena, and will vary from machine
to machine. So, if you mix onto an Otari MTR-10 for example and play
back on an A-80, the low end will most certainly sound different.
Who's to say what's right...

What would probably make the most sense is to use the workstation as a
multitrack, decode each track to analog, mix using an analog console
and mix to an analog tape machine. I personally have never had much
luck with mixing in a DAW and running it through tape on the way to
mastering, but it's an easy thing to try out and you may like the
results.


Best of luck,

Monte McGuire

"Monte P McGuire" wrote in message
...
,,,I personally have never had much
luck with mixing in a DAW and running it through tape on the way to
mastering, but it's an easy thing to try out and you may like the
results.

My experience has been that 99% of the "analog magic" comes from recording
to an analog multitrack. Mixing digital sources to analog just seems to
combine the shortcomings of both technologies.

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