Analogue or Digital. Which is the future?

[ibanez2005]

Is there a huge difference between analog & digital when it comes to music technology?
Will certain areas flurrish and some disapear?
Me personally, I'd say analogue for most things, but digital recording is great.

[Ant1981]

In an ideal world, analouge, but look how easy it is to record at home digitally. If you spend enough, you can come close to semi pro analouge stuff, I spose.

[ibanez2005]

Yeah, i got a boss BR-1600 and its the dogs, cost me a Grand, only probem is i hardly have time to use it what with work and drinking time.
Mostly just mic my guitar straight into it, without using the onboard effects which arent that great.

[Ant1981]

I hardly use on board effects. I just want to record the guitar tone I like, so if any effects are used, its pedals or a rack in the loop.

[ibanez2005]

Yeah, the most i use is delay and maybe a touch of chorus. You can get some really strange sounds out of em though which come in handy sometimes.

[Chris From Singapore.]

For effects and all things guitar, I'm all the way Anal-og.

Except for things like Delay, that's the only place I feel digital might actually perform better than analog.

http://www.happybob.com/marc/digital_sucks/

Check out this article by the guy who does Skreddy pedals.

[btangel]

whatever sounds good, but most of the time analog beats out digital. Especially for distortion. Digital DS just doesn't sound as rich as analog in many cases.

[Ant1981]

Such as the saturation of a valve.

[JESTER700]

There's a big difference in the various aspects of "analog vs. digital" - Recording, Time based FX, Amp modelling (and "analog" doesn't necessarily mean "tubes").

Digital has already trumped analog in recording, unless you're after a special effect (and at $100 for a 24/96 card, it's cheap, too). Same with time based FX, really.

Nobody complains about solid state amp models ("that JC120 model just ain't CLEEEAN enough..." )
So mostly it's about tubes.

[sugizo_esp]

i like both
digital for recording gets me out of trouble...haha

but for live..i perfer soem nice tube dist..with a combination of midi up digital effects such as delay, chorus, so on...

[ibanez2005]

True, for recording it saves time, space and money, but do you compramise tone for the sake of it?

[JESTER700]

Originally Posted by ibanez2005

True, for recording it saves time, space and money, but do you compramise tone for the sake of it?

Actually, when I said "digital trumps analog" in recording, I meant digital recording systems vs analog tape. I don't think modelers have done any trumping yet as to tone. But they ARE much more convenient and have come close. In some styles and mixes, VERY close.

[ibanez2005]

Originally Posted by JESTER700

Actually, when I said "digital trumps analog" in recording, I meant digital recording systems vs analog tape. I don't think modelers have done any trumping yet as to tone. But they ARE much more convenient and have come close. In some styles and mixes, VERY close.

That is true. The whole modelling/simulation thing though hasnt impressed me at all. Stuff such as the Variax, nice idea but a bit of a gimmick. Gimme real guitar and a Marshall and ill play all day.

[NextInLine]

It's not how you do it, it's what you do! For now digital may not be the best but in the future digital recording/gear will be better by far imo...