I worked a lot with analogue in the days when there wasn't a choice and I have to say that
sitting behind a large-format console in the warm light of the VUs, creates a feeling which
simply can't be matched by sitting behind a large computer monitor. As to the sound, however,
I agree with most of what's been said already.

There is one spin-off though, which creates a difference between the sound of analogue and digital and
that's the Cut-Copy-Paste function. Back in the 70s, I did a lot of session work on guitar and bass and
it was necessary to play the song right through, with all the attendant natural variations that it
introduced.

These days I see people copying single bars, pasting them up to make a verse, and then copy and pasting
the verse to make the song. When the whole song is created in this fashion, it becomes too clinically
perfect - like quantizing piano parts to 100%. OK, so it doesn't have to be this way, but how many of
us are guilty of this? After all, it's just so easy and I have to admit to copying the odd track
myself. When I feel I'm falling into this trap, I go back and listen to the Stones, Beatles, Kinks,
and other 60s recordings, with their organic live feel and it gets me back into line.

It was just a thought....

ROG.

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