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RainbowStorm · 28th December 2005

Hi all!

I am very familiar with digital recording, but since I've not recorded anything onto analog tape I don't know what the analog recording process exactly looks like. I know in large that analog multitrack desks are used for capturing tracked instruments. These instruments are routed through the console and tracked onto tape. The multitrack recorder has a playback functionality which allows the engineer to playback the recorded material by routing the tracks back to the console and mix the tracks by using the analog console and analog outboard gear. But this is where it gets blurry for me. I can think of a mixdown process, where engineers mix down the song onto another multitrack recorder through several takes until it is properly mixed and then when further adjustments are needed they use the originally recorded track to re-mix the track. But what about for instance fine tuning outboard effect settings on already bounced down material that else is good enough mixed/bounced? What about syncronization issues involved in this process when a certain part of the original multitrack has to be re-mixed with the other tracks on the bounce multitrack recorder? Is an analog summing console/unit used for eventually summing the bounced/mixed multitracks into a stereo signal and from that summing unit into a DAT recorder/DAW for getting it onto the digital medium? I just have to get a better understanding of this process, since I don't have any experiences in practise with it and I don't know if I ever will be doing analog recording...

Thanks!

28th December 2005	#1
RainbowStorm Lives for gear Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 2,076 Thread Starter	The analog recording process explained Hi all! I am very familiar with digital recording, but since I've not recorded anything onto analog tape I don't know what the analog recording process exactly looks like. I know in large that analog multitrack desks are used for capturing tracked instruments. These instruments are routed through the console and tracked onto tape. The multitrack recorder has a playback functionality which allows the engineer to playback the recorded material by routing the tracks back to the console and mix the tracks by using the analog console and analog outboard gear. But this is where it gets blurry for me. I can think of a mixdown process, where engineers mix down the song onto another multitrack recorder through several takes until it is properly mixed and then when further adjustments are needed they use the originally recorded track to re-mix the track. But what about for instance fine tuning outboard effect settings on already bounced down material that else is good enough mixed/bounced? What about syncronization issues involved in this process when a certain part of the original multitrack has to be re-mixed with the other tracks on the bounce multitrack recorder? Is an analog summing console/unit used for eventually summing the bounced/mixed multitracks into a stereo signal and from that summing unit into a DAT recorder/DAW for getting it onto the digital medium? I just have to get a better understanding of this process, since I don't have any experiences in practise with it and I don't know if I ever will be doing analog recording... Thanks!