[sdiy] Should I repair my Fostex, or should I go HD recording?

[SealsCrofts 1 9 7 5]

if you want to lose your balls, sure by all means use
a computer or hard disk. The fact of the matter is
that digital recording is very accurate. Generally
when you place a microphone on a snare and hit it and
record it, it will playback the same in digital land.
Now think about the snare drum sound on "dark side of
the moon". It has so much character, so much depth,
so much WARMTH, and not trying to sound stereotypical
there, but there were a lot of other things that made
that snare sound so great (like pre amps, mics,
compression devices). Now what else does that snare
have going for it? Well the mixing console that was
used to mix that snare for starters. The mixing
"units" inside these PC-based recorders do not have
the discrete components a channel strip does on a
halfway decent board. Even some boards with IC's
sound much better than any "play back amp" i have
heard in a pc based system. Now if you are the kind
who will spend all the cash necesarry to hook up a
good mixer to a computer or HD (all ins and outs)
then you have eliminated one problem. 

Recording music is about creating a soundscape. Its
really about a non-visual art. Digital definitely
makes that art hard to capture, when in fact
everything sounds the same. Pro tools on Jake's
computer in England is going to sound just like Pro
tools on my computer, in california. Why do you think
shit all sounds the same these days? Back in the 70s,
  NO two mixes were the same. Im sooooo glad to have
ditched my computer. These people who wine and moan
about maintenance with analog, all I can say is good
grief. Could you be anymore incovenienced? I'm
currently tracking with a Teac 80-8 and DX-8 noise
reduction module all from 1978. Im also using a teac
Model 15 mixing console from 1978 which I recieved
for free. We can debate all night, but the fact of
the matter is my 80-8 has WAY more mojo than my
computer set up, or any one's pc based studio that I
have heard. Recording is also about the texture of
sounds, something a lot of people might miss. Sound
texture these digital days is very predictable and
boring. Get the fostex fixed, sell it, and buy
something better like the 38 or the 80-8.       


		
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