Welcome Analog Fans!

[Dom Franco]

Thanks to Dragon!
We have a category for the "Computer Challenged". I just can't seem to trust my hard work, sweat and tears to a fickle thing
like a computer! I know it's the way of the future, but I feel so much better when I get my songs on to an ADAT tape! It's tangible, I can put it in a safe place, and It's not going to come up with a weird *ERROR* press any key.... Windows is just not perfected! Mabye it's just my luck, but every computer I touch glitches out!
The learning curve is too steep! Every new peice of hardware or software program you install, can set you back days or weeks. I'd rather hit the "record button"
and jam! More to come....

Dom Franco

[Hot Rocks]

I'M PROBABLY THE LOWEST TECH GUY WHO VISITS THIS POST,I HAVE TOO MUCH INVESTED IN ANALOG,SO I'M COMMITED TO THIS DOMAIN AND LOVE THE CHALLANGE OF STRIVEING TOWARDS PROFESSIONAL RESULTS WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THIS EQUIPMENT . I HAVE A TASCAM 488MKII DBX, A 246 DBX,A 388 DBX, AND IF THAT WERE'NT ENOUGH,I WILL BE RECEIVING A MINT 238DBX IN A DAY OR TWO.I CAN'T WAIT TO RECORD LIVE ON THE 238,8 TRACKS AT ONCE!!! AND MIXING THRU THE 488.LIFE IS GOOD!ROB


AND MIX IT WITH THE 488

[Matt]

FANTASTIC! A place where I can post analog questions unhindered by fears of abuse!
Dom, thanks for suggesting and Dragon, thanks for creating.

[Dom Franco]

Yes there may be only a few of us, but we make a go of it.

I have been home recording on tape since the days of mono reel to reels (Wolensack).
Just recording a small band live or trying to use two tape recorders to ping pong back and forth! I upgraded to stereo, then Teac 4 Track! 8 track....ADATs and now hard disk.

I know ADATS and hard disk is not exactly "Analog", but it's not a software based, computer driven recording set up!
I look forward to coversing with others prefer to make "music without mouse clicks"!

Hey I just think I coined a phrase?...I like that! MUSIC WITHOUT MICE?....mmmm mabye.

Sincerely;
Dom Franco

[Brad]

Hey! I fit in! When I first saw this new forum, I felt melancholy. I just recently went digital after 15 years of analog. So anyway, I thought I was not aloud in here, but now I see Dom's new post and that is my situation too. I use a digital mixer and I have a DA-38. Digital recording (to a stand alone CD burner) with analog type control! I don't use a computer to record. I use my computer for what it does best: Making CD labels/inserts and posting on this BBS!

Thanks for suggesting this Dom. I tried to suggest something similar about a month ago, but Jack Daniels' was hangin' out with me that night and I think I had trouble getting my suggestion across.

[The Green Hornet]

Hey Analogies:

I still mix down to analog tape; but, I do use the Yam MD-8 for digital recording.

Just one point: Whenever you hear the music, it's analog. Music can be processed via the digital domain; however, when we listen to it, we are listening to analog. Hard to hear zeros and ones!

Viva Analog; it's so much easier to understand.

The Green Hornet

[audioforgery]

Hey fellas!
For those computer-challenged guys out there: take heart! Due to my profession, I've been forced to become quite computer literate over the last ten years. But I purposely chose to use analog gear for two reasons:

1) I fiddled with recording to computer, and in the final analysis, spent WAY more time fiddling with the computer then recording. I spent a thousand bucks upgrading my computer, only to find I was going to have to spend a thousand more to actually record.

2) Digital recording (w/ PC) requires one to purchase an inordinate amount of items that merely facilitate the process, not enhance.

Even today, home computers are really just a rigid bag of acid-etched silicon parts from Taiwan which are assembled who-knows-where, and loaded up with 0's and 1's. The software and hardware manufactures' don't spend alot of time working on compatiblity problems with other manufacturers, so the hapless end user (you) is left to figure it out.

I do, however, see promise in the stand-alone digital systems (Tascam 564). If they could only warm up a tad...

[Lorddiagram]

I agree that, after messing with all this crap and forgetting about why I wanted to record in the first place, that I like the idea of plugging in, adjusting the levels and hitting record. With all the stuff out there it is easy to get caught up, but just listen to an older record, "Sgt Peppers" - If the music is there you will feel good.

I use a Yamaha MK50 4-track, w/ Alesis D4 e-drum set, few mics, an old Kenwood reverb unit, a delay pedal, and mix down to hi-fi VCR - and I must say - I enjoy the sound.

I do wish I could get my SMPTE stripe to work w/ my 4-track so that I can use Cakewalk to mess with my drums, while staying in sync with the 4-track. durn-thing!

Ld

[reco]

Analog is heaven if you know whta you're doing and take it from a guy who spent alot of time withit its a blast..

[Matt]

WOLENSACK! I remember using one of those when I was but a child. They were like a piece of farm machinery. It MADE more noise than it recorded with it's tubes and rattling motors! You could heat a small room with them. What a beautiful start . . . I learned how to make spooky slowed down sounds on a Wolensack. Remember that Weird pause lever on the side? If you held it half way between pause and play it would kick up the ips to oh, I don't know, 45?!

[sergio_fucchi]

Hi all,

I am young for this forum, but not so young as man:; I am 46 yeard old and from I was 20 years old I am interesting to record music live with consumer equipment. My first was a Sony TC-158SD with a mic stereo Sony ECM-990F and a headphones Sony DR-6M. I used the legendary Sony FeCr tape cassettes and I was (and are) full satisfacted of them, also toda, after about 25 years.

Now I have always Sony rec & mic (WM-D6C & ECM-957S) and a headphones AudioTechnica ATH-M40fs. I use my PC to digitalize my recording and to made my CD: I use for this a soundcard Creative Audigy2 ZS with its driver ASIO2. I digitalize at 24bit/96kHz using latest drivers and Creative COntrol Center program: after I cut, re-organize my music and made wave tracks giles with Magix AudioCleanic 2004 dlx.

I like to record jazz, classical and folk music This summer around my country (Marche) there many concerts: latest I have recorded (june 24) it is Sid Jacobs-Simone Gubbiotto-Marco Collazzoni trio: 2 guitars and one sax.
My most important (actually) recording it is a concert of summer 1985: Chet Baker-Mike Melillo-Massimo Moriconi-Giampaolo Ascolese.

Goodbye.

Sergio Fucchi
Macerata
Italy.

[Blue Bear Sound]

Originally Posted by Dom Franco

I know ADATS and hard disk is not exactly "Analog"...

"Not exactly analog..."????? How about "it isn't analog... period!"