Who is also an audio recording geek?

Who is also an audio recording geek?

  • Obsessively

    Votes: 10 35.7%

  • Casually

    Votes: 10 35.7%

  • Barely

    Votes: 2 7.1%

  • Absolutely not

    Votes: 6 21.4%
  • Total voters
    28
I for one miss tape for the sound, but digital is great in bang for the buck- number of tracks for example. I still use the digital 8-track like my old tape 4-track though.
 
I too am in. Roxio Sound Studio software for EACH track, with some five hundred tracks behind - a lot of work but my friends, whata difference !

Cheers,
Ruben
 
In my former lifetime, I was an avid amateur location recording engineer, dragging a rather-late-in-the-day-for-this "purist" 2-track analog setup (HIgh-speed Tandberg TD20A SE and high-end-ish Sony one-point stereo mic) into halls, churches, tiny music rooms (including one mostly taken up by a Steinway Model B), and, once, in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to receord a New York premiere of a Stephen Paulus work for orchestra, five soloists, and a rather large choir, with the composer conducting. (That was the highlight of all of it, right there.) Loved it, but it was back-breaking work to drag that kit around, I didn't like the sound from lighter digital alternatives at the time (and, trust me, I looked...I wanted a lighter solution that sounded good, but didn't totally obliterate my bank account), and photography, which I was long knee-deep into at the time, was calling me ever more loudly, so something had to give. But I had a ton of fun, got to hang with some truly wonderful musicians and singers, and learned a lot, close-up, about the music-making process I wouldn't have done by other means (I don't play an instrument, though I'm told I can carry a tune decently).

I'd thought about scraping together the bucks for a newer Mac laptop than I have and a portable mic preamp to try my hand again, but I can afford only one expensive pursuit these days (well, two...but I have the bicycles I want, and they're all paid for), never mind the energy involved.


- Barrett
 
sepiareverb said:
I for one miss tape for the sound, but digital is great in bang for the buck- number of tracks for example. I still use the digital 8-track like my old tape 4-track though.
Click to expand...

I think many people will record basic tracks like the drums and the bass to 2-inch analog tape to get that warm edge-of-tape-saturation recorded sound, and then dump that to ProTools for adding a gazillion overdubs and for ease of editing.

But, yeah, I can't imagine not having the advantages of digital recording, or rather, I can't imagine being limited to, say, 24-tracks. And cutting-and-pasting the literal way, with a razor blade.

Much like I can't imagine not having the advantages of a digital workflow for my photography now...

j
 
I'm not a "geek", but as a producer and songwriter I do record audio. ;-)

Got a small studio here. Made our previous album in there. Two PCs with Samplitude for audio and Nuendo for MIDI and many plug-ins. Yet what's to be proud of are the two racks of analog gears. I can't give up the digital workflow either, but I use as many analog gears as possible, at least for major tracks like vocal, kick & snare, etc..
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom