Digital or analog? Breuninger says... and asks what says you?

[rbbert]

FWIW, there have been a few other back page interviewees with similar views of LP (not necessarily all analog), and an interview with Doug Sax to which I've referred previously where he also expressed wonderment that he was mastering LP's again (in his case, usually from 24/192 digital files) since he felt the 24/192 digital files sounded better than the resulting LP's.

 

[MylesBAstor]

Let's face it. Studios use digital not because it sounds good but because of the ease of editing and being able to make someone who sounds like a cat singing in a back alley into Joan Sutherland. 'Dats a fact.

 

[Andre Marc]

Let's face it. Studios use digital not because it sounds good but because of the ease of editing and being able to make someone who sounds like a cat singing in a back alley into Joan Sutherland. 'Dats a fact.

Massive over simplification.

 

[A.wayne]

Gross misunderstanding .....

 

[MrAcoustat]

Let's face it. Studios use digital not because it sounds good but because of the ease of editing and being able to make someone who sounds like a cat singing in a back alley into Joan Sutherland. 'Dats a fact.

Studios where doing this way before digital, analog or digital garbage is still garbage.

 

[Andre Marc]

Gross misunderstanding .....

Nah. Having worked part time in recording studios for 10 years in New York, and living next door
to a recording engineer who worked on 5 Springsteen records...there is no misunderstanding.

 

[mep]

So many of today's manufactured pop stars have no real singing talent that they have to run their voices through auto tune pitch correction and other outboard devices in order to make them sound like 10% of a real singer with talent.

 

[Andre Marc]

So many of today's manufactured pop stars have no real singing talent that they have to run their voices through auto tune pitch correction and other outboard devices in order to make them sound like 10% of a real singer with talent.

But that has nothing to do with digital or analog. In the old days they would punch in singers line by line if they had trouble. And they wold also
comp dozens of takes.

Not to mention old tricks like double tracking, using harmonizers..etc...

 

[mep]

The early Beatles albums used lots of double tracking, but it wasn't because John and Paul didn't have good voices. Now on George they used double tracking in order to fill his voice out because it was pretty thin. With John and Paul, it was just an effect that sounded pretty cool.

 

[Andre Marc]

The early Beatles albums used lots of double tracking, but it wasn't because John and Paul didn't have good voices. Now on George they used double tracking in order to fill his voice out because it was pretty thin. With John and Paul, it was just an effect that sounded pretty cool.

Agree.

 

[puroagave]

the documentary "before the music dies" speaks to the digital age of 'developing' artist with nary an ounce of talent.

check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwIiYvLVyZU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9tpOvYDqyo

 

[Gregadd]

Beyonce lip syncs.

analog or digital garbage is still garbage.

There is waste and then there is HAZMAT.:b

 

[Andre Marc]

I still maintain that its 95% the quality of the recording, not the format, that rocks me.

+1. I am recording format neutral. But I absolutely do have a soft spot for analog tape. While technically inferior to high resolution digital,
it is many cases it is more musical.

 

[mep]

I still maintain that its 95% the quality of the recording, not the format, that rocks me.

I agree as long as the recording is sourced from analog.

 

[MylesBAstor]

Beyonce lip syncs.


There is waste and then there is HAZMAT.:b

Don't know why there is such a fuss about Beyonce. Like that's the first time that someone has moved their lips in DC and not said anything!

 

[ack]

Don't know why there is such a fuss about Beyonce. Like that's the first time that someone has moved their lips in DC and not said anything!

Good one!

 

[FrantzM]

Don't know why there is such a fuss about Beyonce. Like that's the first time that someone has moved their lips in DC and not said anything!

You may have to trademark this line!!

 

[edorr]

Don't know why there is such a fuss about Beyonce. Like that's the first time that someone has moved their lips in DC and not said anything!

The while episode makes Janet Jackson's nipple seem newsworthy in comparison.