ADAT sound warm?

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Is recording on an ADAT like having some of the conveniences of digital, and having the warmth of analog?
 
no, there will be no natural analog warmth on an adat.. you can "warm" it up with tube things but that's the exact same as with a harddisk/computer recorder.. adat is digital, so yeah, there will be some digital advantages, but i have no idea where you got the idea that adat has analog warmth, it just doesn't
 
Audio is only as "warm" sounding as you make the source. In fact, you could say that digital is maybe too "exact" concerning frequency response. What you have is what you hear.

I have heard way too many analog recordings that have biten my ears off... :) Really though, I don't know where people get this whole "warm" analog, and "edgy" digital crap from, but it is just not true.

It is going to be interesting to see the responces to this. I can't wait.

zero dude, don't buy the crap about "warm" this or that. Just get a good sound going to whatever you are recording to. Leave the overrated subjective crap out of your choices of recording mediums.

Ed Rei
Echo Star Studio www.echostarstudio.com
 
Thanks sonus, you've givin me good info in the past so I'll have to trust you. But I swear that my Fostex FD-4 makes the stalest recordings.
Also, I bought a beta sm57. Is this mic in anyway better than the regular sm57 cause I haven't heard any talk about it in these forums. I personally love it, but that is probably due to my last mic being from radioshack.
 
Still didn't work! Anyway, go read the thread "Why Analog" in the Analog Only forum.
 
Although i've shared this a milion times, my 2 cents on the buzzword "warmth" are this..

Tubes and tape add even harmonic distortion when pushed past their limit(saturation) Analog tape that is not saturated with signal and getting all "warm" is still "warm" sounding because of its nature of recording. it isn't taking samples bits aren't running low on softer passages. It is an analogous signal that putting a tube before or after digital may make it sound like distorted analog a little bit, but doesn't undo the fact that it was recorded digitally...
 
this is out of this mastering book.
.....an anaolg signal is continuous and variable (analog) JUST like natural sound. the stored signal correlates directly to the source captured by the microphone....digital technology takes the analog signal and cuts it up into many little slices, taking a sample of the analog signal at every cut. the more often a sample is taken, the closer the digital curve reflects the analog wave signal, and thus the more the didgital signal will sound like the analog original..... whew!....i hope that helps. it helped me to understand it more.
jal
 
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