Originally posted by DonM:
Wow, for less than $400, you can have a recording/production studio hundreds of times better than the systems on which 99 percent of the world's music was recorded.
DonM
If your ONLY criteria are noise floor and wow and flutter specs, then yes, maybe you've got the best recording studio in the world. But sadly, there's a LOT more to it than that. Preamps (c'mon! how good do you think they are when there are eight for less than $400, and 99% of the world's music was recorded with a more than $400 pre on EACH CHANNEL?
), compressors, reverbs (know how much a Lexicon480L costs?), EQ's, gates, the list goes on.
Sure, you can make a OK album on this IF you are as good as those that made 99% of the world's music you have heard on the radio. But you'll make a better one if you have that older gear that cost thousands of times as much. Given a choice between this and a Neve or an SSL console, guess which one is 'hundreds of times better'?
But I doubt there's more than one or two that HAVE already made music that got on the charts here at SZ... Hit albums were made in the sixties on two track tape machines. Two track digital recorders have been in our hands for years. How many of us has made a hit album on one?
Maybe it IS about more than the tape recorder...
Now, don't get me wrong... this is a great piece of gear, but hardly hundreds of times better than 99% of what the world's artists have used.
Just hundreds of times CHEAPER...
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