All that to say, when considering an analog option LISTEN! As I said, bad analog has been around for decades. Don’t pick it JUST because it’s analog. Pick it because it’s better.
There is no shortcut for listening. No matter how cool your gear looks, if your disc sounds bad; it’s bad.
Steve Jobs isn’t the problem here. The music industry is the problem—too many bad songs are the problem. It’s the reason the audience doesn’t roar when you talk about playing a new track or two that were added for a re-release of your greatest hits. If your greatest hits were from the last three years, imagine how much money you’d be making on album sales even beyond your touring.
—Jeremy Horwitz
Bingo.
P.S. That goes for classical music too. Whole other bag of bananas there, though.
OK.
So, David1 and I were walking to lunch one day and she said to me, “I’m working on making an instrument that you play like a violin. But, the bow is made of [magical unicorn sinew] and it will play samples instead of, you know, regular violin stuff.”
And I look at him like I usually do when he says something crazy.
With the egg still dripping off my face and my humble pies at a comfortable 350º, I submit to you, dear reader, something extraordinary.
Bravo, David. Bravo, Nate.
Yes, that David. ↩