grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
If money was absolutely no object, as a home recorder, I'd still use a digital standalone. I'd use the 16 and 24 track version of the 12 track Akai that I use at the moment. Not because it's digital, but because I like its ease of use and the fact it has varispeed. I don't think that the standalone is better than the computer either. It's not worse, it just is.
When home recorders rag on analog tape and extol the virtues of digital as being better, I don't go long with them unless they are making it clear that they find it better, not that it is intrinsically better.
Personally, I don't think either medium is better. I love what I hear from both. I could care less about the actual medium. It's like Telecasters and Stratocasters. To me, they are guitars. I might prefer one over the other, but I can't say one is intrinsically better.
In terms of equipment, one can't spend one's life going through everything that's out there. So whatever one finds to be better, fine. But to say it is intrinsically so goes nowhere.
Well, most of the time !
When home recorders rag on analog tape and extol the virtues of digital as being better, I don't go long with them unless they are making it clear that they find it better, not that it is intrinsically better.
Personally, I don't think either medium is better. I love what I hear from both. I could care less about the actual medium. It's like Telecasters and Stratocasters. To me, they are guitars. I might prefer one over the other, but I can't say one is intrinsically better.
In terms of equipment, one can't spend one's life going through everything that's out there. So whatever one finds to be better, fine. But to say it is intrinsically so goes nowhere.
Well, most of the time !