Tubes, Saturation, Warmth Overrated?

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SHOHEI BABA

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Been making an effort to convert everything I have to vintage - bought a tube pre amp for my mic instead of just running it through my old amp, experimenting with adats instead of regular digital recording, and I'm about to experience a Nieve or however you spell it which is nothing but tubes, recorded using a ribbon mic from YEARS AND YEARS ago - I'm finding that tubes and warmth, tape saturation is nothing more than an almost inaudible noise - I think the reason it is considered so hot and vintage is because it gives industry people that tingly goose bumpy nostalgic feeling - because they hear that old noise that so few digital recordings have anymore.

i see nothing special at all and I prefer working in digital rather than tape (adat or reel) - to me this "warmth" that is so hip to say nowaadays is nothing more than noise - i like how clean and bright tracks are nowadays - I don't want to go back to the 70's where everything sounds like mud,
 

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DIGITAL-->ANALOG-->DIGITAL FOR ME.

THE MAJORITY OF YOUR BILLBOARD "TOP" WHATEVER SONGS HAVE BEEN MIXED DOWN TO REEL.


YOU CAN HIT TAPE AT 6DB EVEN 9DB (YOUR PUSHING IT AT 9). WITH DIGITAL YOUR LIMITED TO 0DB. SINCE EVERYONE IS PLAYING THE "I WANT MY CD TO BE THE LOUDEST" GAME WHICH WOULD BE THE BEST FORMAT?


EXCELLENT CLOCKS+EXCELLENT CONVERTERS=BEST SOUND (IN MY OPINION)

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