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Music
Producers Guild Event June 2005 - video
feature.
The
MPG held an event at London's British Grove Studios
to compare analoge with digital recording. Three digital
contenders battled against the heavyweight 16 track
2 inch Studer A800.
Watch our exclusive
video feature here.
This
feature requires a broadband connection and QuickTime
7 or above.
You
can't just accept what other people tell you is the
best format, so many people have opinions and so many
articles are written that it's not easy to know which
is best without h earing
for yourself. To help clear up the analoge v digital
debate, the MPG held a very interesting comparison of
four recording formats. The Pro Tools, Nuendo and Radar
digital systems slugged it out with their arch enemy,
the analoge Studer A800 running on the 16 track block
that is legend in engineer circles.
The
MPG set up this event at Briish Grove bringing 3 top
session musicians to record on the four formats. The
first thing noted was that the levels required by analoge
machines was too much for the digital machines so a
little tweeking was needed. A few people observed that
to make the most of the analogue machine it should have
been Dolby SR at 15 ips but in this case with was non
Dolby at 30 ips.
We
won't say any more, you need to watch the video to find
out how it went. It runs for under 15 minutes but requires
a broadband connection and QuickTime 7.0, you can go
here to get it if you don't have it.
 Many
thanks to all of the people that were involved, MPG,
Pip Williams, Tony Platt, Hayden Bendall and all of
the other key people too numerous to mention - err,
we forgot to take their names! Special thanks to the
chaps of British Grove, the kind owner, Dave Stewart
and Dave Harries.
This
comparison session was not totally scientific and we
are totally neutral regards the competing formats, none
of whom advertise with us!
 Feature
produced June 2005
Other
APRS and MPG links:
September 2005 event at the Hospital Studios.
MPG
Christmas party 2006
Join
the MPG to get involved - it doesn't cost much and
it's a great way to network and pick up new ideas -
and keep up to date with new equipment, techniques and
matters that can make a real difference to you.
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