I primarily listen to music via Files from my CPU through my converter then my monitors. Pretty much all other times I listen to music it's via a CD or some other digital medium.
When I listen to these digital files there is clear difference in sound, feel, depth and dimension on these recordings from different artists, producers, mix engineers and mastering engineers using different recording methods (obviously). I tend to love the sounds more associated with analog recording, mixing and mastering, but I listen to everything in a digital format. This tells me that digital can sound what I perceive as analog, because clearly it does. I am unfortunately not listening to a playback head from tape when I listen to music and I don't have much experience with that but there is a clear difference in the final product digitally.
This is not another crazy "Analog VS. Digital" but I would like to get some opinions from maybe some of you who have Professional experience working 100% in the analog domain on the difference between what you hear in your control room off of tape vs. the digital mix. How different is it? If it's remotely close than it would seem to conclude to me that achieving what I know as analog in the digital domain would be very possible because it already does and it's a just a matter of attributing sounds and techniques.
I stress once again that this isn't a bash or do I want any pointless arguments between the two methods :cop:. Does the digital copy of an analog source change it's characteristics substantially, a little each time, in steps or not at all in the final product?. When I listen to Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song it still sounds as what I perceive as "old, analog and beautiful" on my iTunes playlist, but I have never listened to it on it's original format.
When I listen to these digital files there is clear difference in sound, feel, depth and dimension on these recordings from different artists, producers, mix engineers and mastering engineers using different recording methods (obviously). I tend to love the sounds more associated with analog recording, mixing and mastering, but I listen to everything in a digital format. This tells me that digital can sound what I perceive as analog, because clearly it does. I am unfortunately not listening to a playback head from tape when I listen to music and I don't have much experience with that but there is a clear difference in the final product digitally.
This is not another crazy "Analog VS. Digital" but I would like to get some opinions from maybe some of you who have Professional experience working 100% in the analog domain on the difference between what you hear in your control room off of tape vs. the digital mix. How different is it? If it's remotely close than it would seem to conclude to me that achieving what I know as analog in the digital domain would be very possible because it already does and it's a just a matter of attributing sounds and techniques.
I stress once again that this isn't a bash or do I want any pointless arguments between the two methods :cop:. Does the digital copy of an analog source change it's characteristics substantially, a little each time, in steps or not at all in the final product?. When I listen to Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song it still sounds as what I perceive as "old, analog and beautiful" on my iTunes playlist, but I have never listened to it on it's original format.