Comments on: Why I Hate Tape! (and the Beauty of Hard Disk Recording)

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By: Maya Kuper

Maya Kuper — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:53:44 +0000

As someone who works at a “big” studio where we sometimes record to 2″ analog 24-track, we always ALWAYS roll the tape into Pro Tools once we’ve got some good performances on tape, to start tweaking the performance.

There are plenty of hoops to jump through with tape too. We have to calibrate the machine, clean the heads, etc. But it does sound cool. It has its own magic. I like being able to hold a heavy reel in my hands and know that this machine, which is older than I am, will never give me a buffer underrun error.

I will say, if you’re going to hit tape, your performance had better be pretty tight to begin with, because tape is expensive.

By: Rusty Pietrzak

Rusty Pietrzak — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:08:00 +0000

The NLE aspect is ALL I like about digital recording.
Analog-plug in a mic, turn on the recorder, hit record.
Digital-plug a mic into an interface that plugs into a computer that runs a program LIKE a tape recorder. Make sure your interface is recognized by the computer,make sure you select this interface in the recording software, and that you select the correct output, so you can hear what you record. You also have the computer’s operating system’s audio mixer set, as well as the sound card’s mixer set correctly. If you’re lucky, you still remember what you intended to record after jumping through all these hoops, and are still inspired enough to do so.