Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 9, 2007 Members Share Posted September 9, 2007 Purely out of curiosity. Not recordings that were recorded on analog and then dumped over to digital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members claveslave Posted September 9, 2007 Members Share Posted September 9, 2007 Hourglass. James Taylor. Hard to believe it's digital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beck Posted September 9, 2007 Members Share Posted September 9, 2007 Lots of Enya stuff... but it was recorded on digital and dumped over to analog. Other than that nothing comes to mind. It's been a decade or so of great suffering for my ears. I rate new releases by how many Advil I have to take (or don't have to take). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudolf von Hagenwil Posted September 9, 2007 Members Share Posted September 9, 2007 Anton Bruckner's Sinfonie No. 7, with G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lee Flier Posted September 9, 2007 Members Share Posted September 9, 2007 Yeah there are a lot of great classical recordings on digital, ditto bluegrass or anything where it's a live-to-stereo recording with no multitracking and not much if any processing. Once you start adding tracks together and adding processing, things can get ugly in a hurry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted September 9, 2007 Members Share Posted September 9, 2007 Kraftwerk's "Aerodynamik" and their re-work of "Popcorn". Digital, and it shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members linwood Posted September 9, 2007 Members Share Posted September 9, 2007 And for the slice 'n dice factor, BT's This Binary Universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 10, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 10, 2007 Cool. BTW, I intended to ask more about music that was multitracked in digital, although live stereo digital recordings can be mentioned too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Lozada Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 I guess many Roger Nichol's recordings count on this subject... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 10, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 10, 2007 Other than that nothing comes to mind. It's been a decade or so of great suffering for my ears. I rate new releases by how many Advil I have to take (or don't have to take). You'll have to listen to some old AC/DC LPs on a tube-powered amp just to try and cope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphajerk Posted September 10, 2007 Members Share Posted September 10, 2007 fu manchu live double disc. pt 24/96. {censored}ing LOVE that record... and live to boot. i think it sounds better than most of their [ahem, analog] studio albums. clutch's robot hive exodus, even blast tyrant and jam room [but they are just a great sounding band]. reverend horton heat space heater, {censored}ing badass. im sure i could keep going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 10, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 10, 2007 Please keep going!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author MikeRivers Posted September 10, 2007 CMS Author Share Posted September 10, 2007 The one where you don't even think "is this digital?" I never think about that any more since there are many good and many bad recordings that find their way to my speakers, but I know that some people like to find reasons why "digital" makes a recording sound particularly good, particularly bad, or have some recognizable characteristic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The dman Posted September 10, 2007 Members Share Posted September 10, 2007 I believe one of my all time favorites "Joshua Judges Ruth" by Lyle Lovett was DDD . Having George Massenberg record it might have made a bit of difference:rolleyes: Outstanding Sonics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudolf von Hagenwil Posted September 10, 2007 Members Share Posted September 10, 2007 Once you start adding tracks together and adding processing, things can get ugly in a hurry. Yes. Frequently when layering the second stereo track over the first, I somehow have an unexplainable feeling that I miss a pair of ears, then I often call a buddy to help me hear and localize the 2nd stereo. If you permit, I may call you next time when I change airlanes in Atlanta, and we auscultate some multi-stereo recodings together . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted September 10, 2007 Moderators Share Posted September 10, 2007 The LA band Rooney's new one. Recorded into Pro Tools and bounced to disc at 44.1 / 24 bit by John Fields. Nicely done modern poppy rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jackcheez Posted September 10, 2007 Members Share Posted September 10, 2007 Joe Jackson's Body and Soul is one of my favorite digital recordings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hard Truth Posted September 10, 2007 Members Share Posted September 10, 2007 I'm not positive its a digital recording, but I think it is-The Steely Dan Two Against Nature DVD in stunning surround sound. Not surprisingly Roger Nichols was involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted September 11, 2007 Members Share Posted September 11, 2007 Here's one you probably won't get elsewhere: Out of the Grey -- their 'Gravity' album. I regularly use it as a reference, along with a few classics... Donald Fagen's 'The Nightfly', fer instance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members angstwulf Posted September 12, 2007 Members Share Posted September 12, 2007 Guitar Wolf - Jet Generation :p:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Frantag Posted September 13, 2007 Members Share Posted September 13, 2007 I heard a version of You're My Best Friend by Queen that had been recorded using some of the earliest digital equipment. It was gorgeous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beck Posted September 13, 2007 Members Share Posted September 13, 2007 You'll have to listen to some old AC/DC LPs on a tube-powered amp just to try and cope. I've done that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dave Martin Posted September 13, 2007 Members Share Posted September 13, 2007 I don't think this is a valid question - 'digital' is simply the storage/playback medium. Everyone I know still records with analog microphones, preamps and processors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 13, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 13, 2007 Great. We can rework the question to say, "What is your favorite digital multi-track recording, using a digital medium for storage/playback while acknowledging that the front end may contain analog equipment?" There. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dave Martin Posted September 13, 2007 Members Share Posted September 13, 2007 Great. We can rework the question to say, "What is your favorite digital multi-track recording, using a digital medium for storage/playback while acknowledging that the front end may contain analog equipment?" There.Yep, sounds kinda silly that way, doesn't it? Nevertheless, unless you're one of the very few who buys most of your music on vinyl that was recorded to 2" and mixed to 1/2" and never went to a hard drive at any point in the manufacturing process, then it's 'digital'. And since a number of the mastering guys I know who still cut vinyl run the mix out of a workstation to the lathe, then unless you're present for the mastering, you wouldn't know if it went through a digital stage... And obviously, if you're listening on a CD or MP3, it's digital, no matter how it was recorded. Oh - lets add that a great percentage of the records that are recorded and/or edited and/or mastered in a workstation are mixed though analog consoles with analog processors AND digital processors, so its an even muddier situation... I've recorded stuff at 16 bit 44.K that sounded great, and I've recorded stuff at 24/96K though sounded like it had been hammered to death (which it had) by the time it was released... And I've played a whole bunch of crappy sounding records over the years that were recorded, mixed, mastered and cut and pressed in the analog domain (because I was working in studios before digital recording was invented). The quality of the songs, the musicians, the engineers, the mics and signal chain and even the recording environment - ALL are more important than whether it's a 'digital' recording. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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