Emax

I dont know why people are always speaking about the EII as a milestone in terms of sound from the mid 80’s, honestly i have compared both and the EII sounds like an old
tape, especially on the transient who are quite bad…
What is sure is that the librairies Universe Of Sound were directly transferred thru digital software like Sound Designer, downsampled to 27khz, because when i sampled
with the machine it sounded not as good as any of those banks.

I think the Emax 1, once re-caped sounds just incredibly good for 12bits companded, i have a Roland S330 which is 12bits 30khz and it doesnt sounds as clear and good as the Emax.
Transient on the Emax are really great, it is totally possible to produce a modern record just with an emax, the sound quality wont suffer from it.
Best

Laurent
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