In Reply to: Michi - - your thoughts on this . . . posted by Martin419 on September 6, 2005 at 05:49:48:
"In particular when he says: "As good as digital sounds now with the high sample rates and bit rates [he means "bit depths" - surely?] it still lacks the rounding off of the attacks that analog does naturally. Somehow, and it's almost magical, analog recording blends together all the instruments and makes a bigger thing . . . "Analog tape saturation is used as effect. The added distortion 'fattens up' the sound and the filtering of the transients by the tapes 'limited bandwidth' and speed does the 'rounding off the attacks'.
Frank
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