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Originally Posted by Han  No, the same happens, when you record to digital on tape or harddrive. The current is converted to bits, whether you use tape or disk, the same happens.
Recording to an analog tape machine is completely different though. |
Han, you're contradicting yourself as far as I can tell. I can almost get the concept with HD based DAW's but not tape machines. You say the same thing happens with digital tape machines, yet:
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Originally Posted by Han My theory is this: a two inch tape at 30ips contains 20+ tracks of sound. These tracks have phase relationship with eachother and everytime this tape runs over the machines heads, everyting happens at the same time. Each track passes the head and nothing of the contence moves in distance to other tracks.
A DAW with 30+ tracks works it's ass off, calculates like crazy and imagine one track with only a hi hat and another track with a big sound like a phat synth.
Perhaps it takes just a little more time to calculate this sound and it causes just a tad of latency, so this track moves a very little piece in the time domain. You'll have a tiny phase issue. And this happens with 30+ tracks. |
So what is it? Digital or phase smear due to tracks being "delivered" at slightly different timings? Digital tape should not have timing issues.
Bill