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  1. Maybe the labels don't but most of the indie artists that come through our complex record to DSD multitrack and mix analog.
  2. Hello Charles, I sure hope you are wrong about this. I am trying very hard to make exactly that happen. I am sorry if I took your thread off-track, but I had to respond to the Sonoma comments. Your friend, gus...
  3. Thanks Roch, Actually it is easier! You don't have to work as hard to make things sit right in the mix...
  4. Wow Charles!! I just saw this. I respect you and i LOVE your amps. But i think you are so wrong on this issue. First, NONE of the music done for Acoustic Sounds' Analogue Productions (other than occasional tiny crossfades and small fade in and outs) ever get converted to PCM and they are making more SACD's than anyone. So the 1% statement is wrong. There are plenty of analog to DSD SA-CD's out there. And if we do EQ, mix, compress, or change levels in the Sonoma, then the PCM sample rate is at 2.8 million Hertz. (You don't mention this at all.) IMHO, PCM at the DSD rate still feels like DSD and not at all like PCM at lower sample rates (Even 192k PCM). I know this is a subjective statement, but we are dealing with both DSD and hi-end PCM here all the time. They are not at all the same animals. I believe that the high sample rate is VERY important. Far more so than whether or not something is DSD or PCM. Also, it is a bit misleading to say we convert to PCM to do processing because it leads one to think we are dropping the sample rate frequency too. We are not. (When most people think of "PCM" they think 192kHz or 384kHz is the top rate). Responding to the statement that all but 1% of SACD's go through PCM - even if it WERE true - SO WHAT? PCM at 2.8Mhz makes a great sounding record and still sounds like DSD! As for making the choice to process in PCM at the DSD rate or not, it is like anything else in making a record. You evaluate if it is necessary to go through it. There is some loss to consider just as there is in going through ANYTHING analog or digital. If the music needs something, then you make that choice... Leave it as it is? Or process? Do it in the analog domain? Or use the DSD mixer? And to your statement about DSD being completely useless for modern recording, we are doing multitrack music production to DSD every day at Immersive Studios next door. Charles, please just stop by and chat with the engineers next door recording modern music to DSD every day. We're just down the street!! Ask them what they think! gus...
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