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Why do we tube lovers love tubes?

#602
How can you not love an amp that looks like this

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Tubes all the way
 
#604
I just recently recorded in a studio on tape.

I really didn't notice any difference in sound than any of the digital recording I have done.

the only major difference was how difficult the tape was to work with. always haveing to clean the machine, rewind. punch ins and outs were more difficult. there was no way we could edit.

we ended up transfering it all to digital track by track so we could mix and edit it.

just an extra, expensive unneccessary step IMO. but I have all the respect for the guys who continue on with it!
 
#605
Bob Lee (QSC) said:
I don't think I've ever been to Gearslutz, but if the discussion was about audio, then Ethan Winer probably did know what he was talking about. It might be that others didn't know what he was talking about.
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The thread in question had to do with Mr Winer's insistence that cheap digital hardware is no different than the professional grade gear you find at a major studio. After insisting that this was the case for months he finally organized a blind test, comparing a Soundblaster Live card to I think a Lavry converter.

Right down the line every single person who posts there and works with real equipment in a real studio with a real monitor chain picked out the cheap soundcard. Not a statistically significant sampling, everybody.

At some point it was revealed that Winer's monitoring setup which he was using to make these claims was a Soundblaster in to a RAMSA DJ mixer, the output of which was fed in to a Mackie mixer, and from there on to a power amp and some reasonably nice early 80's JBL home stereo speakers. Which makes it less surprising that he is unable to hear what's going on.

Anyway, the guy seems to have a decent technical background(he makes very affordable and useful acoustic room treatments) but is pretty much nutso. Good example of book smarts not translating to any understanding of the actual craft of working with audio.
 
#607
projectMalamute said:
The thread in question had to do with Mr Winer's insistence that cheap digital hardware is no different than the professional grade gear you find at a major studio. After insisting that this was the case for months he finally organized a blind test, comparing a Soundblaster Live card to I think a Lavry converter.

Right down the line every single person who posts there and works with real equipment in a real studio with a real monitor chain picked out the cheap soundcard. Not a statistically significant sampling, everybody.

At some point it was revealed that Winer's monitoring setup which he was using to make these claims was a Soundblaster in to a RAMSA DJ mixer, the output of which was fed in to a Mackie mixer, and from there on to a power amp and some reasonably nice early 80's JBL home stereo speakers. Which makes it less surprising that he is unable to hear what's going on.

Anyway, the guy seems to have a decent technical background(he makes very affordable and useful acoustic room treatments) but is pretty much nutso. Good example of book smarts not translating to any understanding of the actual craft of working with audio.
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Mr. Winer isn't another one of the "top eight or so," I hope?
 
#610
johnk_10 said:
IME, i've found that alot of people with mostly technical background are of very little help in a pro recording studio and often don't have very good ears.
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That's true of non-technical people, too, except that it tends to be harder for them to figure how the gear works.
 

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