[Arny Krueger]

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but it seems that most studios use analog tape now ?

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Most studios do as much work as possible on hard drives
in computers - Digital Audio Workstations or DAWs.
Compared to analog tape (which is so little used that it
is going out of production) a DAW is cheaper, easier to
use, and produces better results.

I should perhaps be more skeptical about stuff I read on
the internet.

Well at least some of it. Items from analog uber digital proponents have a
very poor track record for being factual. One well-known incident relating
to this involved a incredibly false article about digital on Wikipedia that
an analog proponent posted. It was quickly corrected.

I dont suppose you can point to any comparative figures for relative usage
?

I don't know of anybody taking meaningful surveys in the matter. However,
the traffic on audio production forums shows a very strong trend to DAWs.
The display and advertised items in stores that cater to the audio
production trade have running very heavily towards DAW hardware for years. A
major analog tape producer just quit the business for the second time in
about 2 years. I know a lot of people who used to produce on analog tape but
they are just about all 100% DAW these days, and have been for years.

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Off-topic has anybody ever done direct A/B comparisons between master
tape/LP and master tape/CD ?

If so what were the results in terms of being able to detect the
difference ?

[Arny Krueger]

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Off-topic has anybody ever done direct A/B comparisons
between master tape/LP and master tape/CD ?

That sounds like a 3-way comparison. Is that what you mean?

If so what were the results in terms of being able to
detect the difference ?

It is very difficult or impossible to detect the difference between a CD and
playback of the master tape it was made from, if the job was done with
accuracy in mind. Often it isn't.

It is very easy to detect the difference between a playback of a master
tape and playback of a LP made from it, even if the job was done with
accuracy in mind. High speed analog tape simply has *that* much more
dynamic range across the audio band than the LP format. The difference
between adjacent generations of analog master tape are also pretty easy to
detect.