Is anyone else having a problem playing this video?

One thing that struck me is they said that digital, uh, 'systems' use some technology to emulate the sound of analog recording equipment. Is this right, and why it is not retarded? Recording equipment, no matter what device is used to save sound, should capture the sound of instruments as closely as possible, no? Digitally altering digitally recorded signal to make it sound more analog sounds just wrong, and a lot like sound processors used to emulate tubes in guitar amps.

Watching Ken Andrews talk about the benefits of digital recording is almost as agonizing as watching that Fall-Out Boy music video.

steve wrote:I don't really have a problem with Ken's take on things. He's wrong about stuff, but so what. The thing about how he behaved to the opening band, that's gross, but as concerns his computer recording and what-have-you, I really couldn't care less.

Guy didn't really bother me.

The audible differences between digital and analog records are more differences in method than in sound quality, because the digital methods imply an overlay of aesthetic interference (you could say conformity) which absolutely is audible.

That is, if bands make separate albums, alternately on protools, using standard protools methods and on tape machines, using standard analog methods, the ones made on protools could be identified by anyone familiar with the bands and the techniques to a high degree of reliability.

I'd make a substantial wager to that effect.

Si.

At this point, I have no huge problem with the sound quality of digital recording, in and of itself. I think 24bits/48khz+ sounds fine.

I understand full well why people like to use it. I use it myself.

If one uses a laptop as a tape machine and engineers the recording with care, one can make good recordings on the laptop.

Engineering with care is not particularly encouraged when it is easier to tweak and put effects on things than it is to monitor a live band properly. Such is the case with the digital setup I use, and such is the case with the other digital recording setups w/which I am familiar.

When a Shins or New Pornographers record hurts my ears, it hurts my ears b/c of what was done to it in the recording process more than by the recording process itself.

But what was done to it is mostly a byproduct of recording digitally. It would have been a lot harder from them to do what they did to the record if it was done in analog. I say this having done zero research into their recording methods, but I am pretty sure their shit--at least the shit I have heard--is done on 'puters.

Heliotropic wrote:Is anyone else having a problem playing this video?

yeah, it keeps crashing my browser. funny, i can't recall the last time my newspaper disappeared out of thin air..

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Nice jumpsuit Steve

tmidgett wrote:When a Shins or New Pornographers record hurts my ears, it hurts my ears b/c of what was done to it in the recording process more than by the recording process itself.

Can't agree anymore with that!

I want to skullfuck that cunt right in her inhuman, canned expression-generating face.

Yeah, I said it.

miseryandthesun wrote:I want to skullfuck that cunt right in her inhuman, canned expression-generating face.

Yeah, I said it.

Don't talk about Steve like that, you miserable fuck.

That test was a waste of time and smells like a bad protools/Ipod joint promotion stunt and to top it all off,

I am almost certain Steve tracked Ken Andrew's First failure album ''Comfort'' back in the day. So how can you take the word of a budding AE (Ken andrews) VS Steve Albini's time tested success? I will admit that both formats have their advantages and disadvantages to the entire recording process but this test is really misleading to most. So for the sake of ''your sound'' dont even bother watching this waste of time test from wired and go listen to both formats yourself and I am certain you will hear the difference 1'', 2'' analog can make. I think wired should really just focus on discussing how the two formats could actually work together and help each other out in the end but then again that would compromise the protools sell.

Later,
Nick.