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Old 16th October 2006   #51
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Originally Posted by runamuck View Post
You may not like the music, but listen to either of James Taylor's most recent albums, Hourglass or October Road, and tell me that those don't sound just as creamy and smooth as tape. In the right hands and with top quality equipment,
digital is beautiful. There is absolutely nothing grainy or harsh about those two albums at all.

On the other hand, Harvest was mentioned as a great recording to tape. It's certainly a matter of taste of course, but I think that album is not well engineered at all.

Jim
I did quite a bit of research and couldn't find any documentation stating that October Road was all digital, could you provide a link or something that shows how they recorded this?

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