By the way, the quote was from Engineer Mark Linett.


In last month's EQ, it's talked about in the article on Brian Wilson's
SMiLE
ablum;

I personally have no clue if it's worth it but, perhaps the Apogee
converters have a lot
more to do with the sound quality to begin with?

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SMiLE was recorded to a Digidesign Pro Tools | HD system running at 88.2
kHz/24-bit. Linett used Apogee AD-16 and Rosetta converters and an Apogee
Big Ben clock. He is a fervent believer in using quality external clock
devices. "That should be the first thing you buy after you get your first
DAW," he admonishes. "When I was remixing Pet Sounds I was using a Nuendo
rig running at 96/24, and I had Digi bring over a Pro Tools system so I
could do a shoot out." Regardless of the combination of systems and
converters, the biggest difference he found was in the use of onboard
versus
external clocks. "That's what really opened the soundfield up," he says.

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