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Originally Posted by Bullseye  Don't understand why people would want tape just for the incidental sonic preferences and to me,
Caveat: I do understand going to tape as a final stage of mastering or mixing just for the sonic character but that is a long way to go for a little bit of sound quality that can possibly be mostly achieved otherwise.
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS??????? |
I agree you are probably a troll
but on the possibility that you are simply a clueless newb, I will give you my thoughts.
I am no longer a 'tape guy' and I don't use tape much except as an occasional mixdown medium. But I totally understand where tape people are coming from, and it is the same place that all conscientious recording people are coming from: There is
no such thing as "a little bit" of sonic character if that character is not truly obtainable by other means.
There is no such thing as "a long way to go" if your goal is excellence and that long way is
how you get there. To a professional who knows what he wants, no sonic decision is "incidental".
It's not about "_tape", or _tubes, or _analog, or this mic, or that mic, or this amp, or that guitar. It's about chasing the sound you hear in your head. As I mentioned, it's not the sound I hear in MY head, but I totally understand what that sound is, and I totally understand that the 'substitutes' for that sound are not perfect substitutes. There is no puzzlement in my mind of why some people "go to the trouble"
.
I go to different trouble, but I have different goals.
Mediocrity is its own reward. If you actually _want a sound, and it's possible to get, and you don't go for it, simply because it's "too much trouble", then you suck.