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Kevin Taylor
Guitar Tricks Instructor
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Kevin Taylor
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 03/05/00
Posts: 4,722
06/09/2007 8:36 am
I used to use exclusively analogue. Mainly cause I had a 16 track Fostex studio and it was my daily workhorse.
I switched over to digital several years ago though, and never went back.
It was hard at first to get used to doing stuff like exporting instead of bouncing down but after a coupla years I started realizing all the advantages of using digital.
Analogue is all linear... you record from beginning to end.
Digital is more like painting on a canvas. You can compose stuff in little boxes and then just copy and paste to make up a full song.

When I want to write a song now, I basically do 8 bars and then just copy and paste the whole thing. Then add overdubs over top of the copies to fill it out.
Even harmonies are simple... just record 8 harmonies, then copy and paste them through the whole song.

Plus there's no beating using stuff like VST synths and plug-ins like amplituble.