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I was pitching with a Manhattan II and the filters work on that.

1- because some of the very finest audio gear has an extremely desireable sound that is not replicable from plug ins and because 99% of music is digital nowadays, even stuff that lands on vinyl. 2- Music is digital now. Delivery formats are digital. Some die hard fans of AAA will keep...

This is not why. I was a mastering engineer.

What do you mean?

No. 100% of top quality mastering engineers are using DAWs. I am saying 99% of the top end mastering engineers are sending audio into the analog domain via a DAC, processing the audio in the analog domain, capturing that via an ADC and finishing up the mastering digitally. It has been this way...

Re Clipping: In practice, depends on the material, how much HF content it has and how much distortion is present pre clipping. Depending on how clipped, it can be the most transparent way to get loudness, or, can create masters that help drive the material towards the end goal tonally. All...

The dolby vocal trick is to use the encode without decoding through a dolby A card (201, 301, 361, maybe others). It's a unique brightening effect and a lot different than EQ'ing but noisy, particularly if its amplifying tape hiss too. I don't believe SR was used as a vocal exciter since it...

I think converters have a sound because of the analog stage designed into each, component choice, which conversion chip is being used (that is a huge part of it) and how they are being implemented. My favorite DAC is the Manhattan II, at least as far as mastering goes. Beautiful analog stage...

During peak level wars, some mastering engineers selected ADC's based on their soft-clip behavior, with Lavry Gold's achieving prominent status for the ability to sound good doing naughty things.

I do not know a single professional audio engineer who picked converters based on test results shown at the beginning of the first page. Further, 99% of the top working mastering engineers are mastering in the analog domain, which means extra converter stages. Specs alone say that should be a...

When calibrating tape machines I use specs and some test gear, when evaluating audio gear I use my ears. If something doesn't sound right, out comes the o-scope and test brain. When designing gear in the past, ABX testing and an AP2500 come out.

Yeah I guess so, similar. I think of hard/soft clippers as a digital creation, soft being a modified hard-clipper which is essentially an infinite ratio limiter without timing circuit, soft-letting some transients pass. Tape is non-linear in its effects though and Bass / HF gets hit first...

I picked converters after listening to converters. This is what audio engineers do if they can, which is getting easier for people to do these days. What is considered the best DAC/ADC on audiosciencereview?

Why?

This is so strange to read, though I didn't read more than a few pages of this thread. I am a former recording studio owner / engineer, and mastering studio / engineer. How anyone can crap on Mytek is cuckoo, at least from my experience as an audio engineer. For many audio engineers and...

Physical tape recording is the worlds fastest compressor.

There is a process called spectral editing which is unrivaled for noise removal in audio that can do incredible amounts of noise removal without any degradation to the audio. I used it a LOT in mastering to remove clicks, noises that tracking / mixing engineers thought they were stuck with...

Sorry, got sidetracked. I think with good converters, you can utilize outboard and realize sonic benefits. For some the benefits are worth the added hassle, for some they are not. For very busy mixers, and budgets being fractional compared to what they were, it just makes sense to keep things...

A lot of varied feelings about that. Some extremely successful engineers that have long been analog proponents have gone fully in the box. That isn't to say they all think it sounds better. Workflow is very important for people making a living doing this and digitial gets it done. You adjust and...

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