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Originally Posted by richardwy  In it, the composer or director talks about and to the sound engineer about using Analog rather than Digital technology to record the musicians....But, is that what you're talking about? The Analog sound? And is that what they're talking about in the clip? And what's the difference between Analog and Digital to the guys working the machines and to us who listen? |
Think of Legoland. The Statue of Liberty in Lego's--that is digital. If you want it to look more like the Stature of Liberty, you need to use real small Lego's. The smaller the Lego, the more accurate the model, but we need more and more Lego's, more than we can handle.
The higher the sampling rate, the less "Lego-like" our music sounds, but it is still made out of straight line kind of stuff--no curves.
The drawback to tape is the bit of noise caused by the mechanical nature of the medium, each pass over the heads degrades the quality a tiny bit. Steely Dan failed to release some tunes simply because of that (ever notice how stereo stores in the 70's always had Steely Dan records to test play--their recording quality was the reason?).
Magnetic fields are pretty amazing things, and it would be a great project of godchaser to come up with a nano-magnetic bubble sound media device. (Gotta throw nano in there somewhere for him to get excited.)
Digital recordings do have some tremendous advantages--but they are Legos.