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Old 18th March 2008   #24
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Give me a break. No, it's not "rough", it's an aesthetic choice. And he is not even
CLOSE to the only pro engineer who rolls off the extreme high end regularly.
If you do some searching you will find that this is how many engineers achieve the
illusion of their digital recordings having "warmth" or sounding "tape-like".
Maybe you don't like that sound, nothing wrong with that. But just because it never occurred to
you that someone might choose to do it on purpose does not make it wrong or a
dubious choice at all.

That high end roll off is exactly one of the little details about an analog mixing board
that we all think sounds so good...
Rolling off extreme hi end or extreme low end is just another little example of how
LIMITATIONS CAN BE A GOOD THING!
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