3:12 I don‘t get the "much more high-quality, of course" comment about the Sony PCM-3348, looking down on ADAT. It’s lossless digital audio, after all, and the machines even use similar sample rates and bit depths. Seems a bit like audio tech snobbery to me. 🤷♂️
I don't think it's snobbery. The Sony was the next evolution in recording and all these veteran studio guys want to be recording things on the latest greatest tech. Similar tech yes but think about it this way - say you bring the greatest take ever to a session but it's on cassette tape, no engineer will use that. Serious musicians always want to be recorded in the best possible fidelity.
@musicology2148 The fidelity is (arguably) the same, just the tape media are different. When someone looks down at ADAT because it uses VHS cassettes, that‘s kind of an arrogant attitude, in my eyes.
I agree. 44.1/16 was the standard for years and sounds just fine! the higher sampling rate really does very little in the long run if you consider the Nyquist principle. I think that was just the marketing and general thought process in the 90s: "Wow, shiny new tech! Must be better."
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3:12 I don‘t get the "much more high-quality, of course" comment about the Sony PCM-3348, looking down on ADAT. It’s lossless digital audio, after all, and the machines even use similar sample rates and bit depths. Seems a bit like audio tech snobbery to me. 🤷♂️
I don't think it's snobbery. The Sony was the next evolution in recording and all these veteran studio guys want to be recording things on the latest greatest tech. Similar tech yes but think about it this way - say you bring the greatest take ever to a session but it's on cassette tape, no engineer will use that. Serious musicians always want to be recorded in the best possible fidelity.
@musicology2148 The fidelity is (arguably) the same, just the tape media are different. When someone looks down at ADAT because it uses VHS cassettes, that‘s kind of an arrogant attitude, in my eyes.
I agree. 44.1/16 was the standard for years and sounds just fine! the higher sampling rate really does very little in the long run if you consider the Nyquist principle. I think that was just the marketing and general thought process in the 90s: "Wow, shiny new tech! Must be better."