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There's an interesting article on the Economist on the difference between analog and digital equipment. Snippet: Several years ago, a roomful of engineers performed a series of blind tests on a stack of reference recordings to see if they could distinguish those made using tube technology from others made with transistors. All imagined they would have little trouble picking the tube-based recordings by the warmth of the sound. What they found instead was an ear-opener. In fact, tube-based amplifiers have about as many different sounds as there are designs of amplifier circuits. The recording ultimately depends on which components the designer used in achieving the sound he wanted. If anything, it’s the transformer in an analogue amplifier, rather than the vacuum tubes themselves, that create the illusion of warmth. Early solid-state amplifiers also used transformers—and they, too, were said to produce a warmer sound. What we know about transformers used in amplifier circuits is that they add a measure of distortion to the signal’s lowest frequencies, and restrict its highest frequencies. Also, like magnetic tape, transformers suffer from “hysteresis”—the non-linear way magnetic materials behave when their polarity reverses. |
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the thing is, you can sort of emulate that warm analogue sound by using digital equipment, but why bother when you can get cheaper analogue gear and just make music with that? looks interesting, i will give it a read later, but it will probably go over my head cus i can't remember all the tech stuff i learnt about sound |
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good little article for the layman |
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analogue to mouth, baby |
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Hanalogue |
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digital. it has more channels. |
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prefuse73 - Suite For The Ways Things Change |
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