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ausrock: the problem with your statement is that you split the world into people that are religiously pro digital, and people who are reasonable and knowledgeable and agree with you that analog sounds better. That is a false dichotomy. The world does not split up into these groups.

If you were poking fun at me, why are you fuming out of your ears and inventing things about me in an effort to make me look bad, like me being a self-proclaimed genius, and claiming that digital is superiour? Thats complete bullshit, Reel. If you were "poking fun" you would not have to make up...

No, but it is evident, from this forum alone, that there are analog fanatics who will claim that analog is better no matter what, just as you say that there are people who claim igital is better, no matter what (I haven't many any, at least not the last fifteen years, but there ya go). What you...

You conveniently forget the people who do not acknowledge that digital has it's place, evident in this thread.

Now, when did I say anything even remotely similar to that, except in your fevered imagination? Yes, guys, this is a religious question. And you guys are subscribing to the analog religion, and some other guys are subscribing to the digital religion. One of the problems with people here, like...

So, analog sounds objectively speaking better than digital, and people who don't agree are deaf/stupid/blasphemous, and that's a scientific fact and not a religion. Mmmkay.... :D

https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=103861 Maybe it's more in how you use the equipment, than how much analogs per cubic inch it has?

Ha! I read that as "I own and use an ultragain in my pro studio" which kinda clashed with "I simply can't afford anything else". I was a bit surprised. :)

Well, so give it to somebody that needs it! (No, I don't, I have 27 channels of preamps. :eek: OK, OK, 24 of those are on my Tascam mixer, but still. :D )

Yes. sure, the 1010.

basically, all mics, with the possibe exception of earthworks mics, have color. They just have a different color. Choose the mic that fits best. Start out with an SM57 and a good condenser and you can get pretty far.

OK, do this test with your art: record a stereo signal (whatever, a full song is fine) and pull one channel through the Tube MP and the other direct, an send the wav to me. Then I'll tell you if i have a "dud" Tube MP or not. If I have a dud, then thats a good reason not to buy one, because...

I have an MK319 and an ART Tube MP. If the mic constributes more high-end rolloff than the Tube MP, you have dud mic (which is well known to happen with Oktavas non-existant quality control).

It's probably an excellent choice, both as a first preamp and as a mixer to use for monitoring through when recording. Does it sound great? Probably not. Do you need anything better? No. Will it make you poor? No.

If you want crisp high end, forget the Tube MP. Then, of course, most "warmening up" is a matter of lowering and uncrisping the high end...

Dithering is a purely digital thing, yes. (Summing is not, and in fact, in any decent digital setup you can ignore it).

Dithering is usually done during samplerate conversion as well... Basically, what you do is to add low-level noise (usually just random one-bit noise) to get rid of any aliasing effects. Instead you get one bit of noise, wich for any media with 16 bits or higher is inaudiable in all practical...

No, that's pretty much it.

Doesn't matter, the software still does summing.

You don't do it at all, the mixer does it. It's the part of the mixer that adds all the channels into a bus basically. Summing is tricky in analog mixers, because a summing bus needs a huge headroom. In digital mixers they are pretty much trivial.