When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.
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I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
All I know is that when I mix to digital and when I mix to tape I compare them and the tape always wins out.
The one thing I will say for digital, and you won't hear me say that many complimentary things about it, is that it's cheap. It pretty much enables anybody to record as long as you can deal with the sound.
It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.
Little things can make such a big difference during recording.
I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.
The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?