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Originally Posted by alphajerk
jack, you are freaking INSANE man... analog has the head bump yes... but its low end is NO WHERE NEAR as extended as digital. and the "headbump" is an easy remedy to play upon.
i am insane, in that you are correct, but moving along to sound, well
i simply think you are wrong or we disagree - the only place that digital is more extended
is in the owner's manual......
i'm not talking about the "headbump" - tape outperforms digital at 30ips too
upright bass is but a fraction of itself in the digital world
i use a new reliable a827 with 16 track and 8 track heads - never 24 track
i really don't think there is language to describe what i hear. the space and depth
thing is just night and day - something magical has been traded away for convenience - oceantracks film analogy is accurate.
neither the soft bulletin nor yoshimi would be sonically possible without tape
or any radiohead record or ............................
you should hear the as of yet unreleased rufus wainwright track "the maker makes"
something i did in late november 04 - piano and vocal to the 2" 8 track - the vocal suspended over the mixing board
like a cloud - a sound so huge and immediate that it would be impossible in digital or
still decades away...........
i must also say, thank
god for pro tools hd so i can make slaves for things that need playing with, so that
the master is left until needed, or so i can go beyond 16 tracks with overdubbs
on the 8 track and then into the taiwanese box..........
back to my insanity - i live in a little room in the back of my studio - i have traded
my life for this sound...............
be well
- jack