You can actually buy better used analogue equipment at very low cost. I had one of those Tascam 4-tracks and a Teac 8 channel mixer about 20 some years ago.

Now I've got the Eagles TAC Scorpion board, 28x24x12x8x4 and two 16 channel decks turning together for 32-track.

The thing about digital is that it lacks depth; regardless of how much you think not, it's flat, like video is compared to film.

It's also a lot more fun and sounds better while you're recording. Digital tends to reproduce frequencies that will eventually burn up the cilia in the cochlia and make you basically deaf.

Digital was for cheap, that is, to get quick recording equipment into the hands of songwriters and players so that it didn't cost them an arm and a leg to make demos, but that was the point of it, demos.

I know because I design all of this stuff, including computers. Anyway you can hook up a computer to the analogue setup is fine, but it's the analogue setup that really makes the difference and sets you apart from the 100,000,000 other home recording guys. That, and being able to go out and perform what you write and play, live, without gimmicks and lipsynching.

The performance is the thing and digital just don't cut a live performance. Consequently, it can't capture a live performance either.

Analogue is cheap, if you know where to look. Digital is fine for working things out, but for the record you really want analogue gear.

Think about it: join the 100,000,000 other digital artists, or, rise above them.

Your choice.


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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Anna/Without the Blonde:
Hi Dak! When you 'get to to the computer' do you mix it using software on the computer? I know some people mix it from tape onto a cd file some like to run it into the computer and use that software for mixing/mastering, etc. I've also given a friend a file that was straight from tape mixed up to a cd file and then he put it in his computer program - I forget what he uses I think SoundForge or something? and then he applied some mastering to 'smooth' it out. I'm done having other people do that for me though I need to find and use a method to do on my own. Anyway, wondering what you use for that purpose?

I'll check out the Sony TC D5M ProII recorder thx for letting me know what u liked to use!

Anna</font>