JT Stewart a écrit :
if you recorded at a super high bitrate, it would be pretty dang close. but still, what you would have is a snapshot, translated into 0's and 1's. at the micro scale, all the soft edges in an analog record get turned into jagged edges..the sound is necessarily altered during the analog-to-digital conversion. visualize it as you would a digital picture -- similarly, with a digital recording, when you zoom in far enough you can see that it is made of countless identically sized "pixels". with an analog recording, there is no neat configuration of individual "pixels"....what you would see would be fuzzy, or round, and would contain a myriad of both regular and irrregular shapes.
Maybe this has already been discussed, but most of the electronic music, even produced by analogue instrument, is recorded on a digital medium (computer, DAT, CD...), isn't it ? I don't even talk about music produced with digital instruments or going though digital mixers (which can be even used during the mastering process).
I mean, Ive never seen in my life any producer bringing all his analogue instruments to play live the track through the mastering studio to record the vinyl galvanics. So even the vinyl has some part of 'digital' in it IMO. To me there is no perfect 'analogue' electronic vinyl.
Agreed another more A>D + D>A conversion due to vinyl encoding removes anyway some more 'data', but is that significant compared to what I've just described ?
-- Benoît.
