Members brandonhackler Posted February 16, 2010 Members Share Posted February 16, 2010 I visited some friends in the studio today. They were talking about how they were recording to tape and how warm and awesome it sounded. I got to the studio and they had 2 very old ADATs they were recording on. I laughed. Brandon- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted February 16, 2010 Members Share Posted February 16, 2010 Digitals Digital. ADAT doesnt count as analog. Its all recorded on them as ones and zeros as you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ermghoti II Posted February 16, 2010 Members Share Posted February 16, 2010 Digitals Digital. ADAT doesnt count as analog. Its all recorded on them as ones and zeros as you know. Hence, the "I laughed" part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted February 16, 2010 Members Share Posted February 16, 2010 Exactly. Just spelled it out for noobs hence "as you know" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jon Hiller Posted February 16, 2010 Members Share Posted February 16, 2010 Did you explain to them that ADAT is still digital, just for grins? On the other side of that, I wonder if whoever is recording them told them that ADAT is an analog format? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AwayEam Posted February 16, 2010 Members Share Posted February 16, 2010 HEY BRO You should have suggested they record to a 15K RPM drive. Those things get real warm. I think this one came up a couple times on the Gearslutz "stupidest things" thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members brandonhackler Posted February 16, 2010 Author Members Share Posted February 16, 2010 I just smiled and nodded. I didn't feel like being the dick who called them out. Although since then I have consistently been the dick who has made fun of them everywhere. It was definitely hilarious because they kept going ON AND ON about how much better tape was than "pro tools." I guess they didn't notice their "TAPE" could easily be mistaken as someones collection of Golden Girls episodes they recorded off of the TV in 1986. It was one of those "We're producing our own record" kind of deals. But they had a dude there overseeing it. I think he was the genesis of telling them that it was analog "tape." Making him the original idiot. They just got the trickle down stupidity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted February 16, 2010 Members Share Posted February 16, 2010 I visited some friends in the studio today. They were talking about how they were recording to tape and how warm and awesome it sounded. I got to the studio and they had 2 very old ADATs they were recording on. "And we're using the original blackface ADATs for that cool vintage analog sound. Yeah, yeah, hit that tape hard, get that great tape saturation the blackface ADATS were so good at, yeah. Much better than the later models, yeah..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members CN Fletcher Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 It was definitely hilarious because they kept going ON AND ON about how much better tape was than "pro tools." The sad part is that if you're using {censored}i-Design converters... they're probably right that the "vintage" tape based ADAT's sound better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members matthewmilner Posted February 22, 2010 Members Share Posted February 22, 2010 In late 1993 I had to choose between buying a blackface ADAT and a Tascam 388 for my home studio. At the time I didn't quite understand the difference - since both used "tape". HA! I went with the 388 purely for economics - It had the mixer built in so there was nothing else to buy except tape. All I can say is thank the gods I made that move. I burned hundreds of reels of tape, had fun and learned a bunch about recording. Best thing is: every single tape still plays and sounds as good today as it did the day I recorded it. That machine is a beast though. HA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beck Posted February 26, 2010 Members Share Posted February 26, 2010 I visited some friends in the studio today. They were talking about how they were recording to tape and how warm and awesome it sounded. I got to the studio and they had 2 very old ADATs they were recording on. I laughed. Brandon- Too funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted March 4, 2010 Members Share Posted March 4, 2010 A Maxell cassette probably sounds better than an old ADAT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BrainChild Posted March 5, 2010 Members Share Posted March 5, 2010 A Maxell cassette probably sounds better than an old ADAT. You are dissin them pretty hard. Have you ever recorded to one? I have done many excellent recordings with them and know quite a few professionals in Nashville that made many albums on them back in the day. I have heard way worse HD sessions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted March 5, 2010 Members Share Posted March 5, 2010 I think a lot of people associate the sound of an ADAT with the original blackface, which sounded seriously awful. In that case, Maxell tape, which were at one point loaded into the Akai MG1214 12-track multitrack tapes, did indeed sound better. Leaps and bounds better. BTW, I've done sessions on blackface ADATs that came out well. But it definitely was not because of their converters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Spleencage Posted March 6, 2010 Members Share Posted March 6, 2010 I visited some friends in the studio today. They were talking about how they were recording to tape and how warm and awesome it sounded. I got to the studio and they had 2 very old ADATs they were recording on. I laughed.Brandon- Did you ever get the geographical equalizer request? My fav is the client, and this has happened I bet a dozen times to me, who is booking time and they are saying things like "well the song is 3 minutes long so I guess I'll only need about 4 minutes"!Some aren't as bad as that but they think they will record 5 or 6 songs in an hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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