For the record:Digital recording of 2012 has become "perfect".
Music producers and recording engineers are no longer able to discern between the live feed they hear in the control room and the digital recording of it.
Morten Lindberg of 2L (state of the art recordings of live classical music utilizing the very best microphones and recording equipment available) says he reaches this level of perfection when recording at 24/352.8kHz (DXD).
Source:
http://morten.lindberg.no/category/Audio+Engineering/ Bill Schnee, when recording jazz/rock in his studio, says it happens at 24/192 PCM, using a custom build DAC.
Source:
http://bravurarecords.com/n_hist.htmlBuying a Blu-ray disc or a hi-rez download of such a recording gives you the live feed. You hear what they heard in the monitoring room. If your playback system is better than theirs (doesn’t take much) you will hear the music with higher fidelity than the musicians did. This is the blessing of digital.
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Digital
recording has become so transparent that it can be considered “perfect”. Digital
mixing and postproduction is near perfect, although some engineers say mixing software like ProTool has a signature of its own. My guess is that this is anyhow less harming than good old (bad) analog mixing hardware.
Important note: Some artists (rock and pop genre) prefer recording to analog. But that is because they want the “color” of magnetic tape recording (tape saturation distortion). For such artists the desired “sound” is more important than absolute transparency. -Often they choose mixing and post production in digital domain. Example: Steely Dan, Everything Must Go.
Source:
http://mixonline.com/recording/interviews/audio_steely_dan_everything/ Recording trivia: In the 60s when the Rolling Stones recorded in the States, they drove directly from the studio to the local radio station and gave the DJ a copy of their latest recording session. Then they sat out in the car, in the middle of the night, stoned on drugs and booze, listening through AM mono, and deciding if the mix was ok or not, before returning to the studio.
Keith Richards’s attitude towards sound quality hasn’t changed much. In his home studio of today he prefers directing the microphones
away from the instruments.
Source: "Life", his resent autobiography.
-You might ask yourself why bother to buy the old Stones albums in hi-rez? Well, there are several valid reasons for that, but that’s food for another thread than this one.
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