Analogue VS Digital

There had been a quarrel among society for many years now, and epic battle which has been raging throughout the minds of audiophiles, the one big question. No, it isnt when is phillip glass going to release a new album and will he release it in Dolby 5.1? It is:
is Analog Better than digital?
The battle is similar to the Cold War, with technological advances and factions and revisionists and whatnot.
The Tube Screamers: Vouching for the warmness and unique sound of analogue recordings. They are sticking to their traditions and are quite opposed to any ideology other than theirs. They usually hang around the Electro Harmonix Factory in NYC and compare the dynamic range on each other's vintage amplifiers. They are usually quite upper middle class as they have to have thousands of dollars to spend on Neve Studio Consoles and old Fender Super Reverb Amplifiers and such. Analogue was the main form until the electronic music movement of the 1980s, which became more digital based.

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The General (digital) Population

Who do you know that doesn't own an ipod or some kind of digital music player?
All of the songs on these players are encoded digitally. And the majority of songs since the 90s are recorded while using digital technology. The use of digital software and hardware made recording an album possible by the average joe, and therefore helped create a bunch of independent labels and artists in the 90s.
This allowed people to express themselves musically without having to spend too much money.

The problem that many people have with analogue technology is that it is simply messier and harder to control, also technical limtations cause many analogue mixes to sound unpolished and dirty. In contrast, if a person is recording in a digital studio, they can record unlimited takes and really perfet the sound. The problem with this though is that many digital recordings sound too polished and cold, lacking the sonic warmth of an analogue recording.

Many artists nowadays look back on the early analogue recordings of the 40s and 50s and see great artists, struggling with technical limitations. Imagine if the Beatles had of had unlimited multi tracks! But then again, would this technical freedom have been daunting, like the open page of a book, and would they have died struggling for that perfect sound?
That question must be left to George Martin.

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