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Originally Posted by sound_forward I have no experience with very expensive AD-DA converters and I do not have any chance to audition it before buying.
The best converters I have experience with are Protools HD 192 and RME ADI-8 and I also have RME multiface at my project studio.
The problem is that I do not like digital sound at all. Vinly sounds better to me than CD, I like tape, I like analog synths and fx...The only digital equipment I really like are some older effects and samplers (lexicon pcm70, lxp1, roland SDE3000, korg SDD3000, older akai and emu samplers etc.)
I make electronic music (similar production as Rap/hiphop) and I use a lot of vintage analog equipment and mix with analog deck. Sometimes I do everything at my little project studio and sometimes I go to big studio.
The problem is that everytime I get into digital recording I miss the fat tone and warmth and punchyness of analog.
Once we tried recording every track to protools and mix in the box but the result was really bad. Than we went out from PT to analog deck but something was still missing. The best result we found is to keep everything strictly analog and than record final mix to protools.
The funniest thing happened when we tried to record some reverb sounds coming from my little old LXP1 to protools. The result was just funny. Reverb lost its fatness and 3D dissapears. I paid something like 100 EUR for that little box, and it produce superior tone that protools can not reproduce...
My goal is to eliminate the need for big studio because I find better results mixing at my project studio than doing it in a hurry in big one.
The only problem is final conversion because I find RME multiface bad sounding.
Is there a AD-DA converter that can fully record and reproduce analog sound?
I am not looking for superior imaging and amazing signal/noise ratio. I just want a converter that sounds analog but without further coloring.
For example, If I spend big money for 2ch converters like apogee-mytek-lavry...will I get a closer tone to analog or I just pay for lower noise and better imaging?
I really do not need super specs because my production is full of noises and it is nothing like hi-fi production. I just want that analog tone.
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buy a used studer A827, get some 16 track heads, mix it to 1/2" tape..........
unless the emm labs converters get much, much better, and much, much cheaper,
the studer will still be extremely viable 10 years from now.........
the other stuff doesn't sound very good......
be well
- jack