| Again, I'm not looking for magical fairy dust, or golden unicorn hair. I have no reason to go and book time at another studio. I own my studio and all my gear. I have plenty of clients coming in and 95% of them are happy with digital. My productions already sound fantastic. But I'm juicing for my own machine.
My motive for the tap machine is for a learning experience, just to do it, and yes it would be nice to reap the benefits of the machine... But not so nice for the downfalls of the machine. I don't know how else to explain it, but I'm not being whimsical, I don't expect it to make me a better engineer or producer. I;ve just always wanted to track my bands music to tape.
My whole band is talented and is made up of professional studio musicians. So I'm not worried about anything related to that.
I guess some of you are saying it makes sense and some of you are saying it doesn't. Which I understand both sides.
But I'm booking $2000/week in my studio, so it is not a far stretch to troubleshoot problems, financially.
But...i can always buy a 1/2" machine and a portico tape emulator... But then that gets at the whole magical fairydust thing... And that's not my motive, but that is a sonic plus. I don't know, this is a hard decision |