07-15-2018, 09:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-15-2018, 09:54 PM by Mattias Westlund.)
(07-11-2018, 11:24 AM)Nayrb Wrote: I still really don't see myself having a massive collection any time soon. I have a hard time spending money on something that might get eaten and destroyed during normal use.
I feel the exact same way. I could be wrong, but I suspect the majority of people who are "nostalgic" about tape has never really used tape as a day-to-day music listening medium. Personally I have no fond memories of the format at all, it was noisy and unreliable just like you say. I embraced digital and have never looked back. In fact I find it comical that people are looking for ways to make digital recordings sound like cassette tape... are we going to get some sort of 2001 revival in a few years, with plugins that emulate the compressed-to-crap sound of a 96kbps mp3? Or cheap Chinese earbuds? Let's replicate the stuff that does the music a service shall we, not technology that turns a pristine recording into dog poop all in the name of nostalgia.
(07-11-2018, 11:24 AM)Nayrb Wrote: Yep! I believe I've expounded on it somewhere else on the forum, but at the time a lot of this older stuff was coming out I was either A) just born, or B) exposed to / fascinated by it but didn't have much of the means or wherewithal for practical experience. By the time I was able to get my hands on it, things had changed. While I would not trade the current state of things for the world, I still retain my general fascination with the whole general universe of VO and synths and samplers. It's fun to be able to demystify some of it and get an idea of how things were done.
I was definitely around and making music back when people were using these behemoth rack setups... I even had a rack full of stuff myself. Thing is, that was guitar gear. When I started getting into keys and synths in 1996 or so, I didn't have the financial means to start collecting synths as well, at least not without getting rid of all my guitar stuff. So I made do with MIDI sound cards and borrowed cheap synths (like a Yamaha SY22). Now that I don't have (or need) a rack full of guitar preamps and FX and whatnot anymore, and the super expensive sound modules of the nineties can be had for cheap -- relatively speaking -- I find that I have an urge to go back and explore all the things I missed back then.
And before anyone says "VSTi", let me add that there are precious few software synths that do the 80's/90's digital era type of sounds. The few that I've encountered are just ROMplers, and overly expensive, which makes me think I might as well get a hardware unit or two instead.