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Ok so I asked about the differences between Analog vs Digital recordings and got pretty good responses. So last night I recorded each one of the parts of a Song I wrote twice, once on a 4-track tape machine and once into a direct feed running into Logic Pro for OSX. Here’s what i think..

Vocals - In my opinion the effects blended together better on Tape, maybe if I were a trained singer who sang with no effects I’d say Digital was better though

Synth - Tape wins HANDS DOWN, it sounded MUCH warmer and the ‘texture’ was much MUCH smoother, the digital recording sounded good too but it sounded ‘computerized’ which can be cool , but the tape recording was incredible.

Drums - I have a drum machine, this worked pretty much the same analog or digitally recorded, but the tape picked up more ambient sounds from the reverb and gain effects i added and the digital recording sounded ‘bigger’ . It’s all the same but i’ll go with digital on this one, i don’t like drum beats being hidden.
Guitar - this depends , on tape I got less noise and the notes blended better to form chords, but when fed directly into logic it sounded much clearer but could never sound exactly like my amp sounds live.. I can’t make a ruling on this one, I’m going to swtich back and forth as i need it.

Bass - pretty much same as guitar

MY QUESTION is this….why is it that if i record directly into Software it sounds different than when I record to tape then feed the TAPE into the software, shouldn’t it be the same?

By: Undead

Big fan of electronica and just loved this album in the same way i enjoyed The Cocteau twins and Liz Fraser (who was in my year at high school..nice girl, really) and This Mortal Coil…. I grew up with Kraftwerk, Soft Cell et al , so anyone with a similar taste please add a suggestion. PS Im not a big fan of Miss Kittin!.. Big ambient washy electronica pls..

By: Sherlock

I began rejecting some delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos. For example, a non-Zoroastrian could think of Zarathustra as simply a madman who led millions of naive followers to adopt a cult of ritual fire worship. But without his “madness” Zarathustra would necessarily have been only another of the millions or billions of human individuals who have lived and then been forgotten. It seemed desirable more for personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T. The first break led to a curious result about the embeddability being realizable in surprisingly low-dimensional ambient spaces provided that one would accept that the embedding would have only limited smoothness. And later, the problem was solved in terms of embeddings with a more proper degree of smoothness.
Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements.
However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future. Of course I can’t consciously remember anything from the first two or three years of my life after birth. (And, also, one suspects, psychologically, that the earliest memories have become “memories of memories” and are comparable to traditional folk tales passed on by tellers and listeners from generation to generation.) But facts are available when direct memory fails for many circumstances. I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born but I have good memories.
as a result of that exposure to economic ideas and problems, arrived at the idea that led to the paper “The Bargaining Problem” which was later published in Econometrical. And it was this idea which in turn, when I was a graduate student at Princeton, led to my interest in the game theory studies there which had been stimulated by the work of von Neumann and Morgenstern. As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to “Non-Cooperative Games”, also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties. So I was prepared actually for the possibility that the game theory work would not be regarded as acceptable as a thesis in the mathematics department and then that I could realize the objective of a Ph.D. thesis with the other results. But in the event the game theory ideas, which deviated somewhat from the “line” (as if of “political party lines”) of von Neumann and Morgenstern’s book

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Fuel light comes on in truck on the way home yesterday afternoon.

Decision: Eh, I don’t feel like gassing up now. I’ll do it in the morning.

Ambient temperature at time of decision: 70F.

Temperature this morning at gas pump: 25F.

Follow up question: Who loves February?

By: Geenchy

I recently installed Hotel Giant, a computer game… When I click to start the game (All installed and started up ) It says, your game is loading and once it is loaded it minimizes into thin air. its not even on the task list, the game is still running (I know becuase the ambient loading music is still playing) When i take the disc out, that is when it stops playing the music.

someone please help me play my game?

By: tennis 76

Abyss of Torture- I suggest you listen to “Lycanthropic Moonlight”
http://www.myspace.com/abyssoftorture

Thurisaz
http://www.myspace.com/thurisazmusic

Forlis- Neat little Ambient group for you.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=111751069

Lumière Nocturne- “Atmospheric Folk Black Metal”
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=362917548

Solefald- These guys are really something to listen to! If you listen to just one of my links, listen to this one!!!
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=124946742

Zerivana- Ambient folk metal, a really awesome group!! This would be the only one you listen to.
http://www.myspace.com/zerivana

Jarun- Listen to “Kruki”
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=322359970

Forgotten Sunrise
http://www.myspace.com/forgottensunrise
Lethian Dreams- This one is special for Vicky! I think you’ll love them dude! (they have some harsh vocals, but I think you’ll appreciate them anyways)
http://www.myspace.com/lethiandreams

Dystopia- This is my favorite band out of all the links. I spent half an hour listening to all of the songs, and I absolutely adore them. I hope you feel the same!!!
http://www.myspace.com/dystopiagrief
Alright R&P, I have some awesome metal bands that I’ve discovered in… Mostly recent times I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! Most of them are doom metal, just so you know.
YAY! IT POSTED MY Q!!! Happy days!!! =D

By: Andy

It was a very ambient, chant type of a song. Almost like a slow dance track

By: jason p

this program is a graphic ambient very important

By: Full Metal

I will be videoing inside houses for a Realtor. Should I color balance the ambient light? Because if the room has part window light in one part of room and household lights in another part of the room you have different color temperatures. I need to know how to handle this challenge. Do I use a lamp on top of the camera? I’m new at this since I am a portrait photographer and do not know video.

I will be using a Panasonic AG-DVX100B. Any wisdom in lighting this kind of situation would be appreciated. (Antoni? You out there? Any idea what I should do?)
Vance, I kind of felt like Antoni was my bast bet too and if he doesn’t see by tomorrow I’ll email him. That’s our problem. We know what to do with a still camera; it’s that dastardly video that has us a twitter! My brother-in-law just signed a huge, read that HUGE contract to work with area realtors and is counting on our ‘expertize’. Hum…. Canon D10….Panasonic video…. and never the twain shall meet…. we just don’t do video but I’m thinking we are about to learn.

By: digitaldiva1229

Away from all the ambient light of a small town or city,,
and felt really small,,yet connected?
The Milky Way is much more than a candy bar,,

By: Darryl