breathe wrote on Sat, 04 December 2010 22:36 |
Yes, and the reason is the problems that can afflict digital converters are totally different than the problems inherent to an analog multitrack like the Fostex R8. I am currently digitizing my best friend's cassette 4-track recordings from 10+ years ago here in my studio and I am taking the process really fucking seriously. When you confuse one medium's fidelity problems for another medium's, you make a GRAVE ERROR. You might as well use a crappy film scanner to digitize Jacques Henri Lartigue's photographs from when he was a little boy in turn of the century 1900's Paris.
Nicholas
cgc wrote on Sat, 04 December 2010 21:50 | Myteks aren't good enough to capture your 1/4 inch Fostex 8 track tapes?
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The crappy film scanner analogy is BS Nick.
I would offer that it is more like re-shooting a Lartigue print with Nikon D3 when your preference is a Canon EOS 1D Mark IV, assuming equal lighting and lense quality.
Re-shooting a print isn't ideal, but it used to be the only way to make slides, and it can look quite good when done well.
If you really care so much about this project, why don't you hire Chris Walla to mix the tracks analog. That'd be the best possible thing right?
Leave Mytek alone though, it just makes you sound unstable ranting about a company with an otherwise stellar rep. That's GS style hyperbole, which you claim to hate.