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Old 8th February 2006   #8
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Originally Posted by Kiwiburger
All experiments with summing ITB prove that it is deadly accurate, and noise-free.

Yeah, and who wants that? I know I don't.


We're not talking about 5% distortion on everything with a -50dBV noise floor. A little harmonic and intermodulation distortion is a good thing (and even a tiny bit of noise!), but most of that is going to come from the outboard and especially tape. Nothing beats the sound of a console and tape, and I used to record only digitally so that's not where I came from....it's where I went TO.




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Originally Posted by RKrizman
Don't kid yourself. If you're going analog, you need some good shite or it won't improve on the DAW summing bus.

This is true....but it's amazing the deals that can be had on the more off brand analog consoles these days that aren't a Neve, API or SSL (the good Ameks, later Soundworkshop [modify them, which is easy], later MCI, Trident TSM & 80, Neotek, etc) for 20 cents on the dollar.
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