best of both worlds

[ho-fi]

how do you join the analogue and the digital domain?

1. record on daw/hd-recorder and mix on an analogue desk with tons of outboard
2. just having a stack of pre's and do the rest itb
3. like nr. 2 but with analogue summing
4. like nr. 2 but with hardware-inserts/fx
5. all/most of them, depending on the project currently working on

please tell us about pros and cons

this poll is not about analogue or digital is better, it's about best of both worlds

[John Willett]

What analogue domain?

Digital microphone directly into a hard disk recorder.

The only analogue is the sound in the air before it hits the microphone.

There is no analogue anywhere in the chain - it's all digits.

[ho-fi]

for all those voted nr. 4:

what kind of h/w-Inserts and fx do you use?

Reverb/Eq/Comp....

And Why? (eg. working on a native system, / no similar plug available....)

[ho-fi]

Originally Posted by John Willett

What analogue domain?

Digital microphone directly into a hard disk recorder.

The only analogue is the sound in the air before it hits the microphone.

There is no analogue anywhere in the chain - it's all digits.

no compromise!

[DeepSpace]

Originally Posted by ho-fi

no compromise!

Or entirely compromise, depending on your opinion of the inherent wonderfulness of zeros and 1s.

[salvomix]

I prefer sessions recorded on an analog board.

I mix most of what I receive ITB with SSL Compressor and Manley Mastering Massive Passive inserted over stereo master. Sounds great!!

SalvoMix

[pkautzsch]

Best of both worlds indeed.
In my music recordings, it's Mic-Pre-AD-DAW with ITB processing (if it's jazz aiming at vintage sound, I send the 2-mix out to a Revox 2-track and back into the box again, but that's the exception to the rule).
In film sound, however, I still use the old Nagra 4.2 depicted on the left. Reliable, sturdy, great-sounding - and camera guys think it's difficult to operate, so they look at me like at a magician (although I think cameras are way more difficult - nothing's as esy as the Nagra actually). As most cutters don't seem to know how to handle analog tape anymore, I usually digitize the material myself and give the takes to them as conveniently named individual files on a DVD.

[ho-fi]

Originally Posted by DarkSky

Or entirely compromise, depending on your opinion of the inherent wonderfulness of zeros and 1s.

I didn't mean soundwise... just a digital purism i appreciate.