Are Analog Pedals Better Than Digital?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ต.ค. 2024
- You've heard the arguments. Is analog better or is digital better? What's all the fuss about? Let's talk about it.
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2:53 Line 6 DL4 Delay Modulator
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4:20 Zoom 505
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5:11 Colorsound Supa Tonebender Fuzz
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5:36 JHS Panther Cub V1
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6:13 Rolland Digital Chorus DC-50
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Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger In The Alps
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This. This exactly.
That's what she said!
I get that. Oh that sounds great. Untill they see my old Boss GT-6 fx board. 😂
I love this. I was in a Copenhagen indie band i the mid 90's. My Roland rack gear was visible when we played, and many of the snobs you would find in those circles would regularly complain about my "digital sound". I changed my rig so neither my effects nor my board could be seen easily from the audience. After I did that no one ever bitched about my sound.
Similar experience I actually played an entire rig with a digital multi effect in a true bypass looper on my board. I think I turned it on for one song. I asked a guy in my band who was a wannbe indie cork sniffer how it sounded, he said I should ditch the digital multi because my tone was fake. When I told him the thing was engaged for about 15 seconds he just walked away. Cork sniffing was a huge thing in NY in the early 2000s, and it was a lot of dudes who couldn't play a lick.
i just think this guy is real. Real smart really honest really talented , and really into the science of tone. Keep it real bro and thanks
No, he's actually digital.
Great job dude, i loved that you pointed out that people loved the Zoom because nobody saw it. Today guitar players judge your tone for what they see and not for what they hear. Is like because of having two Strymon pedals you automatically sound great. Pedals are great and help your playing but skill should be the priority. Keep this coming and your record collection is insane.
I totally feel this. Like i make synth and beats stuff on my phone on a free app. But if i walked on stage and pressed play on my samsung walmart phone from 2020 id be a joke. I thought about attaching it to a dummy rig of random non-working electronics for a visual just for a laugh but i like it. I can make music by myself and it sounds pretty good to me. Better than cassette demos back in the 80s and i love me some self recorded tape demos
Phoebe Bridgers is AMAZING by the way. This was 2018. I love that Josh was into her before the rest of us realized how great she is.
I learn more about tones and pedals here than anywhere else on the whole internet. Thanks for doing these!
That thing about the zoom 505 .... Is a kick in the face for lots of purists! Yes, just make good use of your gear, !
@Wilson Zhang I think i got one 505 around here. I will try it on a solid state amp to see what's there. I could bet it got at least 4 or 5 good sounds which pays off. I used one similar cheap "bad" old digital thing on a gig with a solidstate bass amp they lend me some years ago, for guitar. It sounded really good.
@Wilson Zhang lmao you never touched a 505 I can tell. Seriously the most underrated pedal in history, shit sounds MEAN and MEATY. Love mine!
My fingers are digital. Because of the digits.
wow
And you have 10 which is like totally digital too.
@@godislove8740 actually he has 1010
YES!
If part of me is digital, does that make me bionic?
I like digital reverbs and delays. I like the cool digital amps and multi effect stops that have come out recently. Digital has a place, analog has a place.
One of my all time fav records that I started listening to in my teens and still holds up in my collection today.. Faith No More: Angel Dust
We used the (digital) Boss RV500 on our upcoming record as well as tons of analog fuzzes and other analog pedals. Honestly, like everyone is saying, it doesn’t matter what you use as long as you’re happy with the tone. Some people like solid state amps and others like tube amps. Some people like analog pedals and some like digital. Also, in today’s studios, most of the time you’re running through a digital interface for editing (Pro Tools, etc) so most people will have some type of digital use at some point.
A couple albums I would recommend to you, (but you probably have heard them):
The Innocence Mission “Glow”
My Bloody Valentine “Loveless”
Starflyer 59 “Gold”
Failure “the Heart is a Monster”
The Church “Starfish”
I've been really, really happy with a combination of digital and analog. I use a Helix as my "core sound" - typically a Vox 15 or 30 model into a couple IRs, generally Ownhammer but sometimes I use others. On its own, it sounds exactly like it's supposed to sound - like a mic'd up AC30 running through a Marshall 4x12 and a Vox extension cab with a Blue. I run analog overdrives for my gain stages through the FX loops. I use Helix's compressor. I use a Timeline and a BigSky as well. Sometimes I throw on some other random analog pedal. Sometimes I run stereo to a monitor and to a real amp. In any case, it creates this nice blend between convenience (I can change my rig and pedal placements with a couple moves of the joystick, or I can load up a metal rig if I just feel like playing some Dream Theater one day) and analog rawness that may not be digitally implemented. I had a Kemper before, and loved it too - I'd argue the sounds were more "accurate" than the Helix.
That's when I realized that's where a lot of people get hung up with digital. They want digital to do it all, but identically to their analog counterparts. They don't want models, they want replicas.
They want their digital equipment to sound just like their custom boutique modded 7 watt ultra special combo amp that was hand-wired by a guy living in a yurt in the mountains of West Virginia that costs more than their car. Because they're biased against digital, they'll nitpick every little detail that might not be as accurate as "the real thing" or not to their tastes as bad, like an amp model that maybe doesn't produce as much gain or has more chime than the analog counterpart. And then give up on it if they can't achieve their desired results in 10 seconds or less.
It just matters if it sounds good. If you want tubes and all analog effects and speaker cabinets and you just can't get behind digital anything, great. If you want 100% digital in a single box and you think it sounds amazing, great. But does it sound good to you? Does it inspire you? Does it make you happy? That's what matters.
I know that you made this comment ~1 year ago, but it resonated with me this morning. I am just starting back up after a 10 year hiatus and fell prey to the tone snobs and tube/analog folks. Regretting it now - I should have done the HX Stomp and a FRFR speaker. I am a bedroom guy and having a rig I could play loudly, or with headphones, is extremely important to me.
my first pedal was a zoom 505 !!! thats amazing you played one, it had me hooked on effects forever. Great video, thanks for getting into this topic
when I became a Soundtech it changed two things of my thinking: 1.) I don't care anymore, not a bit, about some kind of mojo or something, I only listen to the sound and guess how it'll fit into a mix. 2.) I literally hear 'before' how a good sounding pedal will disappear in a mix, OR how a 'bad' sounding pedal will fit right into it's position in the mix... so...
Got Stranger in the Alps today... totally blown away! Many thanks for introducing me to this lovely record
Was your car digital or analog?
hey steve watches this
Don't know but I saw God in mine on 4 hits of LSD.
God wasn't driving. He wasn't on the LSD either.
all pure analog cars are rotten away
@KC old cars are all analog. No digital components. That's why cars from the 50s and 60s are rough rides.
@KC oh brother lol. I'm an automotive technician. Worked on every type of car out there.
Thanks for turning me on to Pheobe Bridgers! Im binging now. Absolutely incredible.
GuitarVaultStore as am I!
Same boat here! Love it
505 Zoom was my first pedal too. Actually had lovely delays and clean tones.
I'm pretty partial to my DD-7
My first experience with a, "multieffects," pedal was a Zoom my dad had just like that one, but my actual first pedal was a DS-1 I bought off a kid in my sophomore math class for $20
Zachary Robertson my first was a boss bd-2 it appears as if most guitar players first pedal is a boss
This channel is so great. I love how you disprove common mindsets. When I started buying pedals, I didn't know what type of distortion I wanted so I bought the Digitech x-series Bass Driver because it had a MORPH knob. It would do subtle overdrive to full on fuzz. It was suppose to be temporary until I found the sound I wanted, but it's still on my board some 12-13 years later.
OH! and the Boss DD-20 is my favorite delay!
That's awesome.
Came for the pedals, but OMG 💖"Phoebe Bridgers" - Stranger In The Alps that voice is just so beautiful. Thanks for the video and Record Time Josh
Haha, I had a Zoom 505.
A band called Gomez did all their guitar effects from their album using it.
I managed to inherit it when the guitarist threw it away.
I always think of that scene from Metalocalypse. You know the one.
Yep, most of the Digital VS Analog debate stems from people literally not knowing how audio - digital OR analog - works in the first place. Couple that with bad experiences with crappy (or broken, or misused) gear and an entire category of equipment is clearly inferior, you know, because it clearly is if you have ears or whatever.
Right, sure.
Good shit, man!
I enjoy your videos. Decided to take you up on your offer to recommend music. I am 70 years old and would tend to listen to Jimi, Muddy, Trane, etc, recommending them would offer you nothing new. So I am recommending Mischief and Mayhem by Jenny Scheinman. Not familiar with her? Neither was I until I came across this somehow. She has other things with vocals but this particular disc is all instrumental. She plays the violin. It features Nels Cline on guitar so that should give it some cred in terms of instrumental inventiveness, interesting tones and creative soundscapes. A pedal lover may like some of the unique sounds on this. It is not jazz according to my strict definition of that word, but it is creative instrumental music with an improvisational feel. Check it out.
love watching for the gear history lessons.. and the dry humor. love it!
All i see is OASIS posters framed
WHATS THE STORY MORNING GLORY
Hell yeah
At some point nowadays your signal is going to be digitised somewhere so people can listen to it.
the zoom 2100 was my first pedal.
60 Cycle Hum I didn’t own this pedal but my best friend did. We started playing at the same time.
The delay and reverb un that unit sounds pretty decent
Hey! It’s Ryan!
IT'S ME!
One of my favourite recent albums is Adrian Belew Live at Rockaplast. Cool, fun tunes with endless wacky, creative guitar and a killer rhythm section.
I like my Tape delay echoplex a great deal. The sound of it is a favorite. I classify this as my opinion about what I like.
I've used one and to paraphrase Brian Setzer, When you look at an Echoplex it breaks vs the Roland 301
I loved my zoom 505 - felt sooo cheap but the step modulator was soo fun.
I then got a boss bf-2 and a digitech pds-1002 and had so much fun making non guitar sounds with stupid flanger settings, looping, using a slide between pickups with both selected.
Good times!
Thank you so much for helping me discover Phoebe Bridgers.... she's on loop as I work!
She's great!
One of the fantastic things about Josh is the way he is both honest, and pretty kind. I love the DL4. I do not love my old Zoom 505.
I love my gain staging being analog, but mod and delay n reverb being digital, like having line6 or axe-fx re-amp wit tube power amp
Whenever I see a DL4, all I think about is watching a pedal board walk through of Minus the Bear, and just being blown away by all the wizardry of sound they pulled off with DL-4's... And they use like 4 of them stacked. Wild.
Smashing Pumpkins/Siamese Dreams.
Clan of Xymox/Notes From the Underground.
Led Er Est/Dust on Common.
Hey Josh! Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 😊 Absolutely love these videos, I watch them religiously! This episodes Record time, oh my god! 😂 I had never heard of Phoebe Bridgers before, but I absolutely fell in love with the album you recommended, thank you so much! If you don't already know, there's a fantastic Irish artist by the name of Foy Vance! "The Wild Swan" album is fantastic! Well worth a listen! Thanks again Josh, take care ✌️
Am I the only one that thought "oh cool headphones, I'll head to the website and check them out"then literally had a minor heart attack looking at the prices?
Love the Zoom 505. Was my first multi FX unit. Killer distortions and love the step modulator on it.
You should totally listen to the album “Let It Lie” by The Bros. Landreth. Its got great guitar playing and awesome songwriting.
But also Joey Landreth's album Whiskey. Phenomenal.
It's fun to watch the older video and see how every video JHS videos get better
I still have my ZOOM 505 and use it
Lee Clayton - Naked Child!!!!
Found it in a random dig in a friends hard drive (you know what I was looking for) and was FLOORED!!!
Incredible album!
I remember going to buy my first pedal as a teenager it was going to be a boss super overdrive if memory serves but the guy at the shop sold me on a DOD digital multi effects pedal (why spend 50quid on one pedal, when EVERY sound you will ever need is here for only 50quid?!?!) It worked fine for a while but I noticed it was picking up radio frequencies (when the effect was "off" I could hear people talking) and it didn't have an expression pedal, later I went to a different shop to get the expression pedal and was told "why spend X amount for the expression pedal when a second hand crybaby is cheaper?"
I still use the mutli effect pedal if I am looking for a sound. Bit then tend to get a stomp box to replace it in my rig for live. I know multi effects have come a long way since to late 90s but I guess I still like a bunch of small metal boxes over one box does all.
The Zoom 505 was my very first pedal as well. Unfortunately I don't have it anymore. Rad video!
Spends first 20 mins proving digital is not worse than analog, puts on a vinyl....hmmmm
Hieronymus And my FLAC files on my HD player sounds better
Not a guitar topic, but I can't find a video of his explaining why he likes vinyl records. Hopefully it's not because of "their sound".
@@NicolaLarosa I think it is to do with love for music and love for 'collecting'.
@@NicolaLarosa Vinyl does have a certain sound to it. Even if it's a less accurate reproduction that doesn't make it bad if you like the way it sounds.
@@danieljensen2626 I remember the sound of clicks and pops. I remember replacing Hotel California because the start of the title track had that scratchy vinyl sound, and the second album had the same issue. I love the size of the LP for the artwork, but good riddance to shitty pressings.
These videos are so great! Really appreciate the production value. Could you take us through the process of building a JHS pedal? Concept, inspiration, research, prototyping, final testing, PCB/enclosure design, struggles or any part of the process you wouldn't mind sharing? Not sure how many EE nerds there are out there. Thanks!!!
Love the hint of breathe in there.
Digital isn't evil, but as far as amps at breakup, valve is better.
Hi, Josh. I don't know if you'll ever see this but it's amazing to see how far you've come in just a few years. You've got an amazing story and it's cool to be able to have witnessed it. Thanks for being you, brother.
Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe, by the Alan Parsons Project, 1975. Greatest album ever.
Lane Russell
I Robot and Turn of a Friendly Card are also great, especially I Robot.
There is this band from Ontario, Canada called Texas King. Love their music, super easy to listen to and the lead singers voice is really intriguing.
the dd-3 is better than the dd-2
filthy liar
Joshua Scott it’s warmer. I’ve had both
I have em all and DD2 is a magical unicorn. DD5 is actually the best iMHO. There are two DD3s technically ;-)
Joshua Scott I have two dd-3s, one is broken though. I had a dd-2 and i sold it because it was so brittle sounding
I believe you.... Just this once
It came out the year before maybe earlier but (Pile - Hairshirt of Purpose) is all I’ve been listening to for the last year. And pretty much the rest of their discography
I even yesterday went and bought some 12's and threw them on my JM and tuned down to C Standard like them and have been having a blast
zoom 505 was also my first guitar pedal
Turn of century Zoom were trailblazers. Not anymore. I think the brain trust has long since left.
You speak far more truthfully than most TH-camrs I’ve seen here. You make great videos and I know I can totally count on your word :)
Man.. I love ur music choices... WTSWG the on wall... DCFC photo album ... MAN...it’s awesome... check Ray laMontagne - Ouroborus, modern folk darksideofthemoon
I love zoom! gfx-1 was my first pedal. I have owned many zoom multi effects and 3 of the multi stomps are still on my ambient board.
Hey, Josh - if you haven’t yet, you should dive into The End Of The F***ing World soundtrack by Graham Coxon.
Great video, Josh! 100% confident you’ve heard it, but I’ve been digging needtobreathe’s Live at The Woods album recently.
Why you make a chorus pedal like the bonsai? CE1, CE2, dimention chorus, digital, etc.
Good question ... ;)
the emperor is all you need
Lol
Each of those is a completely different circuit. Muff and TS variants are both just a few component changes from their respective standard circuits. Therefore a rotary switch can change out the 1-2 different parts while using the rest in each different mode. The chorus pedal you’re hoping for would require a different full signal path for each chorus.
TC Electronic makes a dimension chorus clone, it is not exactly like the original(it's not stereo), but it is pretty cool. I am currently considering a stereo chorus though. If anyone has a thought on that let me know.
my general introduction to pedals was from a zoom 505II, my parents got it for my 14th birthday -I had been playing for a year at that point. I had no idea that pedals existed before that zoom, it blew my mind and inspired me to play so much more (i should add they got it for £25!). I've never doubted digital pedals, I just prefer analogue because i could build/fix them more easily, but i still have that 505II now and it still works after a lot of abuse over the years, i use it for studio purposes to dial in sounds i can't otherwise get, however i'm slowly (very very slowly) building up what will be my pedal board for life! and i just like making things lol
I just thrust in my ears... I don't care about digital or analog devices.
Thrust away.
Posts, but editable
I've started learning to do that too. I did pay over $500 CAD for a Muffroom, which is the best fuzz I've heard. Still I did own a Hoof at the time, which practically plays itself. Glad I got the Muffroom, but did I really need something that sounded that good, and was so expensive? The Hoof also sounded great.
Also, for years I turned my nose up to the TS-9, the guys at the music store finally forced me to plug into one to "top off" my pedal board. Took a couple minutes to be re-born and despite my fancy Muffroom my toe is constantly moving to the TS-9 if I want any sort of dirt, or sustain.
There's a heavy moral in there. :) No regrets, but listen to other players, and your wallet too. Your ears can also put you in debt. lol.
Sounds brutal
Adrn Amrfs - Not sure if you're replying to me. I do love my pricey Muffroom, and it's built well enough to last a life time. I think the one brutal realization is that the only people who could hear a difference is you, me, and other guitarists. The audience can't tell a DS-1 from a Blues Driver, and that's the brutal reality for guitarists w/ our toys. We're the only one's who can hear, or care about the difference. :)
Also, the Gang Of Youths album Go Farther In Lightness. Saw them do a song on CME's channel and got hooked
But was that sports coat digital or analog?
It's a true bypass sports coat
New to the show and funny to see how things have evolved. Love what you guys are making now, killing it.
Also, dredg - el cielo. Favorite album of all time.
Thanks so much for telling us about Phoebe Bridgers’ record. That’s a magical discovery for me.
Personally never cared about whether gear was analog or digital. I don't even care if it is heavy, awkward, cumbersome or hard to use. If I like it I use it. You gotta check out The Go! Team's new record Semicircle if you haven't already.
I had the reverse experience. I fell in love with an album and then when I went to see him play live, we ended up hitting it off, eating dinner, and having an all around good time. Check out Dylan Leblanc's album Cautionary Tale. I love the production. It just sounds HUGE. The use of strings really adds to the ambiance of his songs. The writing is brilliant and the arrangements are well suited to it, without too much or too little of anything. The only thing I was left wanting was to hear the songs again.
Barchords by Bahamas. Talk about great simple songwriting.
We used to listen to that all the time in the shop! Great album.
I love the way you debunk all the "Mojo" stuff surrounding old pedals...would love to nerd out with you for a few days discussing all your awesome equipment.
All the best,
Mike
I miss the podcast
Seeing an oasis abum on the wall makes me smile. My biggest influence on starting guitar learning. Good day Josh!
One major disadvantage of digital is latency.
@RyuBlade Steve Vai in an interview comments about it. He says the sound is good but latency is weird to play with. I haven't feel it myself yet. Maybe i will pay attention now.
With a pedal just doing one or two things that shouldn't be a major issue if it's well designed, but I could see that being an issue on heavy duty modelers that are simulating an amp and cab and everything. I wonder how something like a Kemper is for that since some major artists are starting to use them live.
Analog has zero latency.
Hey Josh!! I really didn't care much if something is DIGITAL or ANALOG and LOVE my DD-20 and the way it sounds, which is what matters. I also have a timefactor and a flashback x4 but don't know if they're digital or not...Anyway, keep rocking and God bless!!!
Seriously, IMHO:
Personally, I have absolutely no reason to buy a digital pedal for myself. Basically because I'm a home studio recording musician, so anything digital in my signal path, I would much rather have as a software, a plugin for my DAW (Svt, Aax, or whatever), instead of inside a pedal apart from my computer.
When I buy a pedal, in my case, it's because I need some sound from the analog technology that no programmed software/hardware can replicate that well, at least so far.
Only if I was playing live for a audience/crowd all the time, it wouldn't represent such a big difference, taking either digital or analog pedals with me.
And BTW, I'm not a tone snob at all, I had that same Zoom 505, also a Yamaha Stomp box, for a while a Line 6 Pod (which I regret having traded), my cousin had an infamous Digitech RP (can't remember the number/model), and we used to have a blast while playing as teenagers.
Just got a Pod V2 a couple of days ago. I had one 20 years ago. Man they are brilliant. They seem even more relevant today than back then!
I have a Boss GT-10 I picked up used for $100.00 Sounds amazing.I was pleasantly surprised
My experience with that model Zoom is that it was bad.
As a bassist, digital pedal sucks my low end which makes the whole band sound noisy or high pitched. And my guitarists that uses digital pedals tend to not cut through the mix in live situations especially when there is a keyboard player. While the guitarists that i jam with that use analog pedals are more clear and cuts through the mix which i prefer
That's quite a generalizing statement. Which digital pedals? Which analog pedals? What settings are they using (most importantly, what are their EQ settings)? What amps are they playing through? There are so many other factors that I wouldn't blame the technology their pedals use. Also, I wouldn't generalize this to apply to all digital or all analog pedals (i.e., "digital gets buried in the mix, while analog cuts through").
I doubt using a digital delay or a digital chorus is going to suddenly make your sound disappear in the mix, any more than using an analog delay or chorus would.
You can dial in anything as far as I am concerned, and like MaggaraMarine says there are a lot of variables to consider.
bruh maybe they scoom dem mids
Loved this, Josh. Keep them coming!
Does anyone else remember when if you didn't have a effects rack you were either A. Not a serious guitarist/bassist B. A "blues guy" C. An acoustic player. Zoom 505! My first pedal too! Room reverb was cool on that zoom
Yes love pheobe .. love the show .. I have an old digitech pedal that the cat's chewed thru the mains lead & I taped it up with red insulation tape .. but altho it's very temperamental .. I had a guy listen to something once & he said " you're so lucky you have a trailer house in the hills & can play your'e amp full volume there is no way I could get that sound " .. because that's what he saw in the room .. a miked up Fender amp .. but it was the digitech rectifier D.I'yd that he was listening to .. I just didn't argue .. plus the strange thing about the digitech is it has a ' ghost in the machine ' sound that sometimes it works & there is this strange dave gilmour kind of sound with an extra harmonic repeat .. & it just comes & goes plus it picks up strange radio channels at night if I'm using my old squier Tele .. like a little bit of Russian then a local Taxi / then some polka music depending on which way I point the guitar .. still if music isn't fun you are not doing it right .. & I want that on a T- shirt .. cheers ..
Man, I discovered this channel TODAY and I already watched at least 15 videos because it is awesome. Besides that, You're an Oasis fan? Just like me? I'm a HUGE Oasis fan. So. You got my heart today.
First two Swervedriver albums Raise & Mezcal Head. Any pedal/amp/guitar enthusiast will love these albums. Not to mention the incredible song writing.
I like analog overdrives, analog speaker simulators, I prefer digital delays and reverbs. My Rocktron Replifex layered Digital fx with analog signal that passed through. I actually prefer rack gear. I also like tube preamps and solid state power sections. I love tube amps too. I use both. I like stereo fx that has stereo inputs and outputs.
Love your pedals! Morning Glory is on about 90% on my board! Love the mods too!
Just listened to some of Phoebe's music--great stuff! Thanks for the tip! Keep the artists suggestions coming, both yourself and your subscribers. See ya!
Hey this was awesome, Josh. Don't do that lame thing where someone says, "Welcome to the first episode of my vlog!" and then never releases another episode. I'd watch this every week, man!
Good video and good point. It's hard to not listen with our eyes sometimes. For records I recommend Bat for Lashes ("Fur and Gold" and "Two Suns" in particular) and Imogen Heap's "Speak for Yourself." Not too obscure, so you may already be aware of them, but I really like them. Thanks for the video Josh.
Hey Josh,
Just wanted to say im really enjoying these Vlogs.
Love these vlogs Josh. Especially your music recommendations. Thanks!
You guys at jhs have to have the nicest setups I have ever laid my eyes on. Goals af. Love your content, and love your product
That Zoom 505 was my first pedal as well! Played my first-ever talent show (8th grade) with it. 🤘
Just bought that record...listening now...fantastic!!
Good concept, interesting insight. Consider making this possible to listen as a podcast. Good for the peak hour and saves on the data
Listen to the bands Can't Swim/ Microwave/ Citizen/ Balance and Composure...these are on repeat for me at the moment
Casualties of Cool by Devin Townsend. Townsend is known more for his heavier stuff, but this concept album is a ‘70’s country record set in space, using modern recording techniques, and old telecasters/valve amps. The vinyl is worth a grab, cos it sounds eerie and vintage. Very Fallout!
Departure Songs by We Lost The Sea. Local band (for me. Australia). No singer, but some great instrumental post rock (think Mogwai). This album is quite dark. Each track is based on a particularly poignant death someone in real life had. Again, (if you can find) the vinyl is amazing. They do different colour variants, and the track liner notes tell about each track’s story.
I am fascinated by this whole analogue vs digital malarkey! Actually wrote my dissertation on the comparisons between analogue and digital signal processing for audio applications, comparing a spring reverb with a digital delay line, with filtering designed to make it sound like the spring reverb. As you can probably guess, the spring reverb had a heck of a lot more character, but the digital was still pretty decent! Tried to build them to a similar price point, but the digital was so cheap i could have made 4-5 of them for the same price! It's madness haha, great video as always!
these very smart musicians were talking digital back n forth . told them analog is where it's at . they both wanted to fight me . So I looked deep into it later online , yep analog is where it's at !!