Ahh, the old analogue religious convictions. What a load of rubbish.
ahh, the old 'technology moving fast' argument. it is rubbish. technology and developments is not something that just happens out of the blue. and I find it amusing with all the bold statements when microsound as a whole is fully dependent on products from large commercial empires.
digital audio exist because the industry wanted something that would scale to mass-markets. automated quality control was hard to do with vinyl.
I currently use digital for editing and as a multitrack recorder but these days with care to avoid the oh so typical digital audible signatures. and I always master to an analog master tape recorder. even if I digital is the target media - I then re-encode from tape. this process is not perfect - but the end result is realtively free of the common but oh-so-boring digital signatures.
analog is freedom. you can build the equipment yourself out of tubes, transistors and whatever.
analog is freedom. remove the digital distortions forced upon us by the large commecrial interests and immerse yourself in true expressive sound-art.
3 okt 2006 kl. 14.24 skrev Michael Edwards:
that up), and your equipment doesn't even know what sd2 files are any more. good luck trying to remaster that record. whereas with analogue, you put a magnetic pickup to the media, and provided you get some basics like speed right, you have your music. adding to this it should be
I take your point but it's not quite true, IMO. OK digital technology is moving faster than analogue did but, in the case of an old analogue master tape, if I can get my hands on a tape machine in 10 years (or even now in some places) I'm not so sure the tape heads will be aligned and all the analogue circuitry in working order.
Best,
Michael
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