[Scott Dorsey]

John Williamson wrote:

Says the voice of someone with little or no experience of real life
recording. Go to an acoustic concert, record it, then see how close you
can get to that sound with analogue and digital equipment. Digital gets
closer every time.

I'm not sure I buy that anymore. Yes, there was an age when digital
systems all sounded harsh and glassy and analogue systems all sounded
smeary.

But.... these days you can buy very good digital gear and very good analogue
gear (and let me say that the ATR-100 can be set up to sound so much more
accurate than any of the previous generations of tape machines that it's
eerie), and we now have come to the point where the best tape machines and
the best digital converters are both so much better than the best speakers
and the best microphones that it really doesn't even matter anymore.

I've done it both ways, and my experience backs up what I wrote. It even
works for location recordings of random
sounds you'd hear as you walk around the place.

I continue to be very fond of the key-jingle test too.
--scott

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