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Task 4: Project Evaluation

Evaluation – Task 4 evaluation: Were the results/findings what you expected (look back to Task 2 - Part 1)? Throughout the research, I discovered the end result was much the same as my hypothesis. That digital equipment is affecting the traditional studio greatly. I was expecting to find that digital equipment was slowly rendering analog equipment useless through the fact that we are making developments in our sound every day in order to get digital up to the same spec of analog, and I found the truth throughout my interview. I confirmed this through first hand knowledge in my studio interview, as they almost always use analog. However, if it is easier on digital and sounds just as good, they would use it. I also expected that the modern producer would not have any analog equipment, as it was too expensive. I find this really interested as it shows the direction that we are going with producers being happy using fairly cheap, shop bought gear. What did my feedback from...

How has digital recording impacted the traditional analog studio?

Specialist Research – Case Study – How has digital recording impacted the traditional analog studio? Introduction/Hypothesis: Throughout my research I will be looking at how digital recording has impacted the traditional analog studio. More specifically how digital products such as MIDI instruments and the new wave of bedroom producers are affecting the traditional studio with their tape machines and analog equipment, and potentially rendering them worthless. My prediction throughout this research is that bedroom producers with their lightweight, MIDI keyboards and computers are slowly killing off the last of the big studios all over the world, and we will slowly find them all starting to completely perish within the next 30 years. Analog Tape Machines Ways of recording: They would record the artist and transfer it on to tape. It was also very hard to cut up the track and transfer and make edits. To do this they would need to cut up the tape and then stick it...