why do analog recordings sound better than digital?

[The Chase]

It's like when you're with some dude and like holding his muscles 'cause his arms just are like wrapped around you and you feel like so safe 'cause you're like...you know...not that you're gay or nothin but God you just want to bury yourself in his chest and just live there forever.

[funkadil]

Only really expensive analog sorts of things sound quality to me. Besides synths, Im referring to recording media. nevermind, dont listen to me lol

[Jason Brian Merrill]

BEcasue analog is Warm, full, smooth, saturated, oh and warm, warmer, its just real Warm. Digital is cold, real cold, like ice cold, and harsh yeah harsh, its TOO good..

AND because Steve Albini says so.

only when chuck norris lets him say so.

[eduardo_b]

Because there's a myth that analogue is better...just because. Sometimes it's true, but more often it isn't.

[Meffy]

Seamoss is a funny way of spelling complementary symmetry metal oxide semiconductor.

shouldnt that be complementary-symmetry metal oxide semiconductor?

coz yer way would be CSMOS :P

RCA called the same technology COSMOS. Just about everyone else called it CMOS. Go figure.

[VladimirDimitrievich]

It's like when you're with some dude and like holding his muscles 'cause his arms just are like wrapped around you and you feel like so safe 'cause you're like...you know...not that you're gay or nothin but God you just want to bury yourself in his chest and just live there forever.

Dreaming about me again, my dear?

[laputa_sync]

i prefer digi! am i wrong?>

[No name]

yup, you probably are.

[laputa_sync]

oh dear

[jackson]

Crikey, Chase, that was a little graphic

[thecontrolcentre]

... mass auditory hallucination?

[bduffy]

Anal-Log? Diggy-Tale?

[Hink]

BEcasue analog is Warm, full, smooth, saturated, oh and warm, warmer, its just real Warm. Digital is cold, real cold, like ice cold, and harsh yeah harsh, its TOO good..

yeah that's the answer that we've become conditioned to say...but how true is it really?..Instead of the typical cliche answers I'll be honest...it's better in the same way that "the good ol days" were better...nostalgia...however for me production out weighs nostalgia and the "cool" answer...yeah the good ol days...where you could go to a studio, spend about a grand and walk away with 500 45s with a song on each side, the good ol days where yah just finish up a song and while mixing it down the tape breaks, the good ol days where the tape for one song on some of those machines cost more than some hard drives today, the good ol days where the home enthusiast could spend 500 bux and get four tracks on a tiny tape and no noise reduction or effects...where when you were done you had a cassette full of mud....yeah the good ol days...sorry but I won't buy into the hype and I wont apologize for being able to do with digital what I couldn't even dream of when I started...long live digital

[guitarzan]

I was fully in the "analog is better" camp until quite recently. There was definately something missing from digital at first, but now that a lot of time and thought has gone into what that missing "something" was and steps have been taken to model/emulate it, I think digital is great!! I firmly believe that anything still missing will be successfully modeled as soon as someone figures out what it is.

[Cabinfever]

I use Digilog and now I just feel younger and more alive