<div>I'll let you know how it turns out! I think this will be interesting once I add a pair of Distressors and an Apogee at the end of the chain :) </div><div><br><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Tony Hardie-Bick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony@entity.net">tony@entity.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On 23/04/11 11:46, Larry Pham wrote:<br>
> From the days I heard music played from DAT, I have always loved the sound.<br>
> Warm, clean and that je ne sais quoi quality about it. I later learned about<br>
> AD/DA converters and that was what gave the DAT its "sound". Now that DAT<br>
> recorders are a dime a dozen, I've managed to score 2 Panasonic SV-4100 and a<br>
> Tascam DA30MKII. I would like to experiment chaining them together to pass a<br>
> signal through the AD/DA converters using the spdif and analog inputs. Before I<br>
> go rush out to buy more spdif cables, I'm wondering if there would be any<br>
> benefit by doing this? Will I get a super fat coloured and saturated sound or<br>
> will I just add more noise and end up with crap?? Any opinions?<br>
<br>
</div></div>Hi Larry<br>
<br>
Yeah - early "pro" ADDA was really crap, hence the "sound", but there are so<br>
many variants on conversion. I think generally the terms fat, coloured,<br>
saturated, are not associated with these conversion systems.<br>
<br>
By contrast, analogue distortion, whether it be from a filter in a synth, or<br>
more subtly from the endless signal paths in a Soundcraft mixing desk, tended to<br>
add something musical, even if it was unintended.<br>
<br>
Tony (HB)<br>
<br>
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