I am looking to buy a reel to reel to add to my home studio. I am wondering the pros and cons of tracking to tape or tracking to digital, mixing, and then recording the final stereo mix to tape. I am finding that it would be much cheaper to purchase a two track reel to reel, rather than a four or eight track. But then, of course, having only two tracks would limit my ability to record, so I would have to do everything digitally first.
Are there any major advantages or disadvantages with either of these approaches? Would there be any difference in the sound of the final product? If I mix a song digitally, dump it to tape, then rerecord it back into my DAW, is that going to make it sound any better than if there was no tape involved at all? Is it going to sound just as good as if all the original tracking was done to tape?
Thanks.
Are there any major advantages or disadvantages with either of these approaches? Would there be any difference in the sound of the final product? If I mix a song digitally, dump it to tape, then rerecord it back into my DAW, is that going to make it sound any better than if there was no tape involved at all? Is it going to sound just as good as if all the original tracking was done to tape?
Thanks.