I'm fairly new to this forum, and have recently been reading up on a lot of posts from musicians/sound engineers who have been posting their thoughts and opinions on the differences between analog recording vs digital recording.
I've only been recording since around '94 when I bought my first Fostex four track cassette tape recorder. I used that for about four years until I bought my first digital multi-track, a Yamaha MD8. I now own and use a Fostex VF160 16 track hard disc recorder and am very pleased with the recordings I get with it. I've never had the opportunity to own one of the old analog 16 or 24 track "2 reel to reels, so I never knew what kind of quality of recordings they produced, just what I've read from other people who have owned and used one on these forums. The idea of analog vs digital recording is fairly new to me, and I didn't realize that there was this much of a debate on the subject. Other than the old Fostex four track tape machine that I had, the only recording medium I've really ever used has been digital.
I know now that the majority it seems of musicians/sound engineers prefer the old style analog recording method. Unfortunately, due to the cost and increasing unavailability of this type of equipment for the average musician, it seems to me that we might as well embrace the digital technology as the accepted way of recording our music, don't you think? Some of us may hang on to some of the old analog devices we still have and can still utilize, such as mixer boards, effects, etc., but for the most part, digital technology is here to stay and is cheaper and easier to work with. It's time to let go of the old and make way for the new, even though it's hard to let go of the old, I'm afraid for most of us who cannot afford to aquire the old analog recorders, we must start to accept the new digital equipment that is being used nowadays, and just learn to record music with it. In the long run, it's the music that counts anymore, not the medium on which it's recorded.
Tunes68.
