Does analog summing sound better? Can you tell?

[Forum Member LE]

In response to the analog/digital i.e. which is better debate, I still believe that to get the disired results you have to try different things and be open minded to old and new technology and methods. Probably using a bit of both is going to get you far. In this case, personally, I just think that the D-Box doesn't do enough "rounding" or "warming" to really be worth it, or at least to outweigh the degradation of going back to analog and then back to digital an extra time. Perhaps it would be better if I had a better 8 channel D/A than the ones in the 002.

Joachim

My thoughts exactly.
I wouldn't invest in any summing box if it meant using the 002's analog.
I would look at getting the BLA mod if the Dangerous was what I was going to do or get a used AD-8000 w/ADAT card and a Folcrom then just used my pres' to sum 8 channels from the lightpipe.
Either of those or a similar scenario would probably yeild results closer to what you expected.

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Perhaps it would be better if I had a better 8 channel D/A than the ones in the 002.

Skyflash, there is no melotron in the track, but maybe there should be! Nice idea...

Thanks for helping me out - and hopefully this test was helpful for you as well.

Joachim

Nice job on the tune all around. B sounded a little beter to me. I would like to here the same test with outboard converters. Nice Mix. What mics and preamps did you use?