Mac vs. PC for recording.

[WalterBush]

I find that the best sounding music recorded on computers is recorded by people who have talent and an ear for what sounds good. It doesn't make a lick of difference whether you use a Mac or a PC.

Or an ADAT-based system, or iZotope, or a 24-track Studer Tape machine fed by a Neve board (lots of proffesional studios don't have a single Pro Tools setup in the building). A good engineer will make something work, and a bad one can take the best setup and make it sound like a$$. I understand that old-school recording, mixing, and mastering engineers used to debate tape recipes, saturation levels, and magnetic head alignment techniques, too, and this conversation is merely the modern incarnation of that conversation


Oh yeah, good source material helps recordings too. If the band's happening, it'll show on an '80s boom box stuck in the middle of the room.

 

[JimmyM]

Well I guess what I said came off a bit edgier than I would have liked, but what I meant was that with all the advances in technology, it's possible to do master-quality recordings on just about anything these days. I record stuff on my PC with a 2-channel sound card and an old ART stereo mic pre that sounds darn close to master quality. The limiting factors with digital recording nowadays are in the equipment you hook up to it and sample rate capabilities, not the actual machines themselves.