Comments on: Show Analog Some Love

By: zenerx

zenerx — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:28:52 +0000

There’s nothing far better than performing at your peak. I love it, along with so does my girl.

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By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:22:56 +0000

Yes certainly…in fact I have heard others say that they carry a recorder with them when they travel not necessarily to record a performance but rather a location or atmosphere of a place or setting to take back to the studio to use as a background for a performance such as forest or river or even a city street. Opens up all sorts of new ideas.

By: Andrew Levine

Andrew Levine — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:21:20 +0000

Hi Mike,

> it truly isn’t how fancy the gear is but how you can use it.

definitely, if there was something good to be recorded in the first place :-) I’d be happier to preserve a great musical moment with one mediocre microphone & a tape recorder than track some crap in surround @ 24-192.

OTOH, I always take a Metric Halo ULN-2 & two DPA 4060′s with me on vacation, so the chance is good that I’ll be prepared when some good music crops up ;-)

By: ben

ben — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:23:35 +0000

That’s awesome. You can make awesome recordings on anything. Just need to know how to use the gear.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:28:41 +0000

Actually I know a guy who still records on his old Fostex 4 track cassette and you would never know it. Sounds like 1″ at least. Sounds really good believe it or not. He has been recording on this old little thing for so many years he can take the sound beyond normal limitations. This situation is really rather inspiring because it tells me that it truly isn’t how fancy the gear is but how you can use it.

By: ben

ben — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:43:13 +0000

I think my first analog experience was generally horrifying: stepping into a room with a Neve VR, a 24-track Studer 2″ machine, and a ton of outboard gear for the first time made me nervous.

That being said, everything after that was great. I’d consider myself a proponent of digital recording, but if I was rich, I’d have a decent all analog console and some tape machines for sure. Nothing beats the first time you record to tape.

By: Andrew Levine

Andrew Levine — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:23:45 +0000

I couldn’t do my work (sonophile mobile stereo & surround recordings of live concerts & sessions) in this quality (and without having to rely on a car / truck) without digital technology, but I sure love my analog microphones!

That’s where it starts–well not exactly. It starts with good music being performed by gifted, hard-working & enthusiastic musicians, but I come in by placing my microphones–well not really.

In many cases I am the first audience / more or less objective pair of ears listening in, and helping the musicians get into the flow, and stay there, while getting the work done–to be captured by my analog microphones :-)

The music happens before the microphones, before any gear at all, and is captured in the analog world, transparently (digitally) preserved for lossless “processing”, to be recreated in the analog world for our ears.