Mark Knopfler’s comments on tape

Mike Lavigne said:

In this month’s Stereophile. From an interview. the article is more general regarding his process and includes use of Dolby Atmos too. the article included a picture of two Ampex ATR-102's....the weapon of choice.

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I am not impressed with his vinyl issues, they do definitely have that digital to vinyl sound, bought all his studio albums in a collectors box, nice to have "Golden Heart" on vinyl for the first time, nice sounding, but it does not sound like AAA vinyl. When he says he uses tape, it is not for the whole process, most recordings coming out of his commercial studio British Grove are recorded digitally originally.

If every rock album sounded as well as all the Dire Straits and Knopfler solo albums I would be a very happy camper.

Personally, I don’t think that all the albums recorded digitally sound like everyone else’s digital.

dminches said:

If every rock album sounded as well as all the Dire Straits and Knopfler solo albums I would be a very happy camper.

Personally, I don’t think that all the albums recorded digitally sound like everyone else’s digital.

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They do sound excellent for digital, the best sounding once are the first 3 Dire Straits albums recorded analog. By the time his first commercial solo album came out he was to much in love with the ease of digital recording as a artist and producer, he produced one of Dylans worst sounding album "Infidels" digitally. And Willy DeVille's "Miracle " would have sounded a lot better if Knopfler had bothered with tape at the time.