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Dave Derr · 5th May 2003

LOL TED

Nahhh, theres no fightin goin on... just passionate opinions! (Laughing)

You know what cracks me up? I remember the first Digital Recorder I had called a SONY PCMF1 that I borrowed from a friend Craig Melvin who worked at Maryland Sound at the time. Just having started doing my own recordings, after years of being a musician and recording at big mongo studios, I was shocked and stunned at the lack of noise, and just plain PUNCHINESS of the Sony Digital recorder. (If I remember, this was around 1983/84?). I did a lot of (terrible) mixes to it and then had to give the F1 back to Craig after a couple months. I went back to my Revox Two track analog tape deck for mixes and just plain COULDNT STAND THE NOISE AND LOSS OF TRANSIENTS! I begged Craig Melvin to bring back a SONY PCM501ES digital recorder back from Japan next time he was on tour. (And he did God Bless his soul). And keep in mind I had a pretty insensitve ear at this time, because afterall, I was a guitarist who was used to 125 dB of screaming thunder from my tube amps. (OOoo those days!)

To finish my point, I remember the thrill of Digital recordings for myself and everyone back in the 80's and 90's. If you were really lucky you could afford to mix to digital, and if you were really rich (laughing) you could actually track to Digital! People were craving to be ALL DIGITAL (DDD) and bragging vociferously when they did.

Now here we are a couple decades later... and if you are Really Lucky you can mix to ANALOG, and if you are Really Rich, you can track to ANALOG!

Funny how things change.

5th May 2003	#6
Dave Derr The Distressor's "daddy" Joined: May 2003 Location: New Jersey, USA Posts: 461	LOL TED Nahhh, theres no fightin goin on... just passionate opinions! (Laughing) You know what cracks me up? I remember the first Digital Recorder I had called a SONY PCMF1 that I borrowed from a friend Craig Melvin who worked at Maryland Sound at the time. Just having started doing my own recordings, after years of being a musician and recording at big mongo studios, I was shocked and stunned at the lack of noise, and just plain PUNCHINESS of the Sony Digital recorder. (If I remember, this was around 1983/84?). I did a lot of (terrible) mixes to it and then had to give the F1 back to Craig after a couple months. I went back to my Revox Two track analog tape deck for mixes and just plain COULDNT STAND THE NOISE AND LOSS OF TRANSIENTS! I begged Craig Melvin to bring back a SONY PCM501ES digital recorder back from Japan next time he was on tour. (And he did God Bless his soul). And keep in mind I had a pretty insensitve ear at this time, because afterall, I was a guitarist who was used to 125 dB of screaming thunder from my tube amps. (OOoo those days!) To finish my point, I remember the thrill of Digital recordings for myself and everyone back in the 80's and 90's. If you were really lucky you could afford to mix to digital, and if you were really rich (laughing) you could actually track to Digital! People were craving to be ALL DIGITAL (DDD) and bragging vociferously when they did. Now here we are a couple decades later... and if you are Really Lucky you can mix to ANALOG, and if you are Really Rich, you can track to ANALOG! Funny how things change. __________________ Dave Derr