Analog vs Digital

I remember working on a record where we were using Drexel's studio A and B right when protools HD came out and the wholeplace had been upgraded to 192k and this student was like "so what do you guys think of 'THE digital'?"

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I've only ever had experince with Analog effects.

clifford, you have a marshall major? where the hell can you turn that thing up these days?

I'm not sure if you mean turn up one for sale or turn up one volume-wise so I'll just say both.

My dad bought it in the 80's or 90's, put it in storage for a while, I recently pulled it out of storage.

I also live on a ranch out in the middle of nowhere, my dad's a big rock fan, I can crank the amp up as loud as I want.

Each one has its place. It really boils down to what suits you best. Keep in mind that some people like certain digital pedals because they sound like analog units.

I remember working on a record where we were using Drexel's studio A and B right when protools HD came out and the wholeplace had been upgraded to 192k and this student was like "so what do you guys think of 'THE digital'?"

that is all

This made me chuckle.

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This made me chuckle.

THE digital

I also live on a ranch out in the middle of nowhere, my dad's a big rock fan, I can crank the amp up as loud as I want.

I'm jealous. I wish I could crank my amp up. I live in a townhouse, so I have to be mindful of my neighbors. I want to set my amp free!

I have tried to work with digital effects but it just doesn’t work for me. I just prefer analog cuz it’s easier to work with

I read a lot but most of the fiction I read I now download to a Kindle for convenience. I still like to buy "nice" books every once in a while however and quite often seek out rare or unusual hardback editions of books I know I'll return to.

I have a similar sentiment towards gear. I love that so much stuff is available digitally simulated; it's great that there are so many resources to download and experiment with, often already integrated or as free plugins. "Warehouses" of gear can be owned cheaply and virtually without taking up an inch of physical space. As a purely recreational player I've enjoyed gathering together a handful of analog pedals; assembling a modest pedalboard, of boring old 'classics' unlikely to excite any pulses or raise any eyebrows ...pedals I consider to be the standards (or budget clones thereof) against which all others are judged. Analog vs Digital is an odd debate which i think can only be answered, Yes.

Both can be great, I would say this is just another color to the tone, thats why you choose digital or analog, when there is a choice. Only in some cases you will not find much of a diffrence, when you want then some you need another solution.

if I had an iron back and a lot of money - I would only use analog. And not because of the sound, but because of the fetish. because now I've switched to pod go and it's saved me fitness before gigs and money because I stopped buying new stuff for my pedalboard all the time.

Both analog and digital have their place, and I like seeing when artists use analog equipment on stage... but digital equipment is good for those who wish to still get the tones of an amp that they might want but don't necessarily have to worry as much about the cost.

The thing I also like about digital plugins is the ability to replicate guitar tones––I once replicated Daron Malakian's guitar tone from the first System Of A Down album in AmpliTube 5 based solely on footage and what audio engineer Sylvia Massy had described about how the guitars were recorded, and I got it pretty dang close. Tone replication like that is definitely a niche, but it is one of my favorite things to do (even if it can be time consuming).