What I read here is a bunch of morons who underestimate the power of sound, and the ears ability to hear minute detail.
Now you guys mock THREE fucking professional engineers. This is rich!
If you all want to get the final "digital vs analog" test results, record something simple to both, and don't tell your woman (assuming most of you geeks even HAVE a woman...
) what you are doing, and just ask them which they like better. It would be best that you capture the same performance, so you need to "mult" at a patchbay (oh wait! most around can't afford fucking patchbays that can mult!!!) Try your best to achieve similar levels, and in the analog end, strive to achieve the best signal to noise ratio.
I can tell you that most women I have done similar tests on will pick analog every time! I had a woman once who could pick out all analog tracked, all digital tracked, and analog tracked transferred to digital versions of songs. I was astounded that she could pick this shit out from samplings of music she had never in her life had heard.
I have tried lately to go gentle or to not respond on this board when complete stupidity get's posted. I don't expect even some of the "semi pro" engineers around here to have studied sound that much. I certainly don't expect most of the "hobbiest's" to go much farther than this board for info. I EXPECT to read rediculous, uninformed, statements based upon experience that is limited to a Roland VS unit, or a Delta 1010 card and some Mackie pre's and a Studio Projects mics. I EXPECT that most around here have had little dealings with "the real deal" type of gear. But where I start getting very pissed is when people who cannot achieve a setup with a noise floor of any better than MAYBE 60dB, and do the bulk of their audio is rooms that I wouldn't even enjoy LISTENING to a mix start saying that certain people are full of shit, of that people who have been around the block a few times in product developement (I only have a "few" clues about the products sjoko2 has worked on....these are products you KNOW and RESPECT..but he won't let on..neither will I at his request) and everybody with an opinion that is worth less than their asshole starts crying "bullshit!".
I am seeing posts by people that claim Ozone is a "professional" mastering solution, capable of "outstanding results". The same camp that thinks the world of Waves DirectX plugins (with their 341 samples of latency at 48KHz! and mangled leading edges on the waveform when they aren't even setup to do ANYTHING...). I am seeing the same people who think a fucking Sampson amp is "pro", and that a Delta 1010 is a "pro" converter.
You know what guys? Most of you forgot what great audio sounds like! Point fucking blank, you are all firmly entrenched in suckass audio. You are listening to all the wrong things. I think most of you just don't even know WHAT to listen for, nor have a clue about what some of us are even talking about, much less what we are listening for.
You same guys who claim all this crap gear is so "capable" are the same one's who start in on the ol' "why don't I get the same "depth" and "warmth" as big time recordings?" and the like. It is basically pathetic. It is not JUST the gear, it is your limited experience hearing anything that actually sounds good! But here you go discounting what professionals, LONG TERM professionals in the field say about audio.
Long before I ever read anything ol' Rubert had to say about higher sampling rates, I had discussions on this board about how I felt the audio just sounded more "natural" at higher sampling rates. Everyone argued that higher bit depth was the key. Great, now you all have "supposed" 24 bit capabilities in your garbage gear. You know what? The mp3's I am hearing don't sound 8 bits better!
Maybe I am just too cynical these days reading this crap on these boards! Oh well, I read your guys crap, you can read a little of mine now. Mock what professionals who have worked in this field (some of who have worked in this field than some of you who mock them have been alive!) if you will. You lose my respect (I know, like you care...)
Digital sucks ass. The "good" digital is as out of your price range as the supposed "good" analog is. Given the lower end choices, I will pick most analog any day of the week. Most chicks agree!
Ed
