Will I Lose Quality Dumping?

[vineband]

I have an question. I am recording at a great analog studio in athens Ga. We have 24 tracks and 18 songs. I have loved the experience of analog but the machine process is slow and i have been debating dumping it all to pro tools for better editing and speed. I have not mixed from tape and i can't imageing how slow it would be???

Its good ole rock n roll with lots of toms and rich bass parts... what am i losing when i dump the tape into pro tools? If only 5% of the population will take notice i might want to save the dough (and fix a couple vocal moments!).

I'm not really bringing up the same debate, what i want to know is since i have tracked on tape will i loose much richness and depth by editing, mixing in pro tools and then going to an analog mastering house?

 

[steamshooter]

I'm not quite sure I understand you correctly, but, here goes A friend of mine released a cd some time back. He recorded it in his grandparents' home. They packed in all analog tube gear into the living room. I believe it's the best cd I own. I don't know if I fall into that 5% you speak of, but, the differences are staggering! (btw- the music is in a bluegrass vein-recorded pretty much "unplugged")

 

[jonhall5446]

Hopfully the quality of your dumps will remain sufficient.


sorry, couldn't resist

 

[The Ghost of FM]

It all depends on the quality of your A/D converters and if you are storing the tracks in 24bit uncompressed digital once in the computer system or hard drive based work station. If those two criteria are met, it should fare well in the transfer though some differences will still remain in terms of ambient information and overall imaging that tends to become a bit two dimensional once in digital.

What parts are you finding so "slow" about analog? Waiting for the tape to rewind? I don't get it.

Cheers!