Mixing Analog vs. In the Box vs. Hybrid Approach: EP3 Creative Recording with Tape Op

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• MA

  @MarcDanielNelson · 1 year ago

  Keep these coming Larry.  The community wants more!

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  @xxsouthxxsidexxroyxx · 1 year ago

  "We were getting cleaner mixes in the box." But people didn't like those clean mixes. That's why they developed three million different saturation plugins and clippers.

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• BI

  @bioburden · 1 month ago

  Track through good analog hardware, mix in the box, job done.

• JA

  @jamarwashington6419 · 1 year ago

  Hybrid is the best solution to any issues one can have with digital mixes. <br><br> The main reason i swear by hybrid to &quot;fix&quot; digital mixes is because it can offer &quot;real&quot; analog saturation to gently smoothen out an otherwise square-ish pixelated sound that digital is notorious for...<br><br>...(hence the sometimes snake oil salesmen solutions most in the box mixers lean on such as analog style vsts that literally can never sound as smooth as analog saturation which is literally the most superior thing about analog gear that kept us longing for its &quot;warmth&quot; more so than digital &quot;pixilated&quot; emulations of that smooth sinless sound). <br><br> It doesnt even take alot &amp; it doesnt have to sound analog in the end, but as long as those digital stems get some nice subtle color smoothing it all out, the end result just sounds so much better(its the missing &quot;unfinished sounding&quot; piece i can always recognize isnt there when listening to 100% digital mixes).

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• MR

  @MrJbreez85 · 1 year ago (edited)

  @<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGbA6FGvqLE&amp;t=136">2:16</a> &nbsp;Saber? &nbsp; I have one and it is a noise machine. &nbsp;Fun to look at and I use it from time to time. &nbsp;But mostly just as a tabletop for picks, cables, and empty coffee mugs.

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  @380stroker · 1 year ago (edited)

  Lets be real here. &nbsp;These guys are not discussing sound quality. &nbsp;They are discussing convenience and of course digital will always win. &nbsp;There is something to be said about recording a master tape to digital where modulation has only occurred once. &nbsp;This is your big sound and depth. &nbsp;This digital remastering of songs crap where digital files get re-modulated makes everything flat and dull, not to mention the brickwall limiting. &nbsp;The magic truly is in that single modulation of signal from analog tape to digital or live performance to digital. I could go on with my theories of linearity, clocking, data extraction, signal modulation, dither, jitter, ailiasing and how all this negatively affects digital sound quality but that&apos;s for another day.

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• MR

  @mrmorpheus9707 · 1 year ago

  All comes down to your convertors

• 3E

  @3enj4m1n · 1 year ago

  George Lucas let himself go.<br>Great channel! Subbed! Liked!

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• CH

  @Chaos-Dynamics · 1 year ago

  Digital controlled analog gear like Wes Audio has or like McDSP is the future imo. I mix on an analog console and love it, I would love a completely automated console like the Neve Genesis. Of course you can work completely in the box but analog knobs are faster than a mouse 🐭 I like the intuitive fast approach of an analog device, make it digital controllable 😊

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• NI

  @nicefish10 · 1 year ago

  In the box might be convenient, but it’s not nearly as much fun. I own a big hybrid set up with 56 channels of Neve… Way more fun to pull it up on the eve and use the external hardware but I do most of the editing obviously inside of the DAW

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• TH

  @TheRealNewBlackMusic · 1 year ago

  Glad to see tape up still going strong after so many years as far as what he says about in the box mixing I could not disagree more. ITB sounds like crap and engineers and producers turning to it is one of the things that killed rock music. The reality is musDrank the cyanide laced Kool Aid of digidesign and other Music software companies. If switching to digital because of revisions is a concern then just get yourself a digital mixer.

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• CO

  @coolint · 1 year ago

  MIXING IN THE BOX REALLY MEANS, YOUR JUST USING YOUR COMPUTER, A DAW, PLUGINS AND THEN YOUR RECORDING TO THE CD RECORDER ON THE COMPUTER THAT YOUR USING.<br>BUT IF YOU USE A INTERFACE, OUTBOARD GEAR, A CONSOLE OR ANY PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT&apos;S, THEN YOUR NOT MIXING IN THE BOX, BECAUSE YOUR USING ANALOG EQUIPMENT TO PRODUCE &nbsp;A QUALITY SOUND, THAT YOU CAN&apos;T GET FROM A COMPUTER AND PLUGINS.<br>SO EVERYONE HAS TO STOP LYING TO THEMSELVES, ABOUT MIXING IN THE BOX, BECAUSE YOUR NOT DOING THAT, AND YOU WILL NEVER DO THAT, WITHOUT USING HIGH QUALITY ANALOG EQUIPMENT.<br>AND ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT CHILDREN ARE LISTENING TO YOU GUYS, TO LEARN WHAT&apos;S RIGHT AND WHAT&apos;S WRONG.<br>SO ALWAYS TELL THEM THE TRUTH.<br>AND NOBODY WANTS TO BE KNOWN AS A LIAR.

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