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Originally Posted by computa  there is math and then there is the reality of ur ears. If u go by math alone- digital should sound better than analog and we all know it doesn't. Plug-in emulations should sound better or as good as their hardware counterparts (ie waves api 2500 plugin vs a real api 2500) and they don't.
i know there r alot of folks who all they know is digital and plug-ins and they swear by them. But it puts them at a distinct disadvantage when making comparisons to quality analog processes. |
I have to disagree about this. There's nothing that "says" that digital should sound better. The fact that digital is so exact really means it's much LESS complex and MORE simple than analog, real-world physics, if you will. I agree with the part of your sentiment that digital is not NECESSARILY better than analog though (although I disagree that it's necessarily worse too).
And to farther echo beatyoudown and some others maybe, analog music really IS all about math, just like digital is. It's just that the real world math of an analog machine is so incredibly more complex than a digital emulation (right now at least) that it can seem so superior.