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Analog vs. digital mixing
No idea if this is interesting for anyone here, but who knows.
Being asked by many students about the difference about analog and digital mixing and realizing that there is not so much useful information about that topic (at least not for free), I created a 33 minutes tutorial that covers some aspect of these topics. Let me know what you think. https://youtu.be/v8QITLl5Fgk And yes, my english could be better, but that's as it is Daniel |
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Re: Analog vs. digital mixing
Good stuff, but I have a suggestion:
Instead of announcing which version, playing, then announcing the next version and playing, skip the pause and talk and use a graphic on the screen to show which version is being heard. The "stop and talk" breaks things in a way that makes it tougher to notice any audible change(if any happens).
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Re: Analog vs. digital mixing
that's a good point..
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Re: Analog vs. digital mixing
very nice Daniel, thanks for that!
I find it most difficult to achieve a certain grip and heft while staying inside the computer and yes, as you mention in the video, an open top end without being harsh. |
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Yes, that's really more difficult in digital, yet also possible. We discussed in another forum, that it would be a great other lesson to take that drum files again and only do an ITB Box, until I would be satisfied. Then see how that one compared to the analog. Also what is interessting, is to hear the analog and digital version at the end of the video (where I show it including their busses). The difference is rather clear, but then, if you close the eyes and just try to hear when I switch, the difference suddenly gets smaller. Our brain makes things stronger as long as we know what is what. (Not saying that there is no difference, analog EQ's and Comps do have a reason, that is clear..) |
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I feel there is often a need to compensate more with digital mixing, which can lead to quite a chain of processing on individual channels. Tasteful analog processing on the other hand leads to more pleasing results in a more straightforward manner, with the side-effect of "solving" issues that you'd never thought were issues until you tried to recreate the processing with the digital counterparts. That said, I do work heavily with digital tools but having some key pieces as actual analog hardware can be helpful to give you some orientation. As much as I try to keep my plugin processing chains minimal, this does not always work. Seeing people that I regard as pioneers in digital mixing like Tchad Blake use tons of processing makes me feel less guilty about it though :) With the example in your video, imo the snare has a more classy sound with the 1178 on it, whereas the digital processing tends to be a bit more pokey. I've been experimenting with clippers (standardClip, Ozone, UBK-1..) to address this by choking the initial transient on drums and other transient rich instruments. |
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If I work in the box, which is fun too, I tend to also use lots of plugins, the more the better (for me), but every plugin does less than I would do with an analog toy. To me many plugins doing less give me a better sound. The harmonic distortion that is missing in the plugs I do with decapitator, saturn or FrontDAW (United plugins). Having a combination of maybe up to 6 or 8 Plugins on the Snare often give me a pleasant sound. By the way, in my Video about compression and harmonics there is a lot of info about this, if you want to check out. There is also a cool explanation about why we need to thing about dynamic.. https://youtu.be/AlRkidUyp9M |
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