Originally posted by Eric Seaberg:
I hear the 'air' that only shows up on 1/2" 2-Track Studer A-80 @ 30ips...
That's where this is all heading, you know? A friend of mine has the new PTHD stuff and won't do 192k on it until he gets massive amounts of storage added. It really is absurd how much it takes!!! Keyplayer: There's probably something painfully obvious to everyone else that I'm missing. But woudn't it be easier and far more cost effective to just track your data analog in the first place, then transfer your "airy data" to your DAW at 48K or even 96K and just work with the data from there?
In the early days, we budding audiophiles were taught to find the hottest level on a virgin vinyl record and then record that album straight through to tape (preferably Cassette & RTR simultaneously).
We were to then shelve the LP and only play the tape for listening enjoyment. Since the record's sound quality would start to deteriorate after 20 playings. The tape would supposedly go about 5 to 10 years with no ill effect, depending on how much you played it. So you could easily make your LP last a lifetime.
It seems to me that this is pretty much the same thing. All those engineers who pine for that Analog depth and Air should just track that way and then transfer the results to their DAW for mixing, editing, and printing. Then you'd have the 192K sound without the 192K storage requirements.
Or am I completely off on this?