Quote Originally Posted by LICORNE View Post
For the purists where should digital start.

For some like Phil Ramone who does the Gramys TV brodcast. It starts at the mic splitter and ends at you TV set. For others it starts after the Neve analogue mixer and ends at your TV set.
It's a mad world out there.Theres nothing like the sound of a NEVE and if you can reproduce it's musicality . I'll go for after the analogue mixer.
And get a horse too. I remember reading posts just like that about digital cameras 10 years ago.

The best of analog sounds pretty good. But relatively cheap digital is pretty darn good. I have no problem with you buying your vintage Neve. But for what you pay I'll get a whole studio and a heckuva a lot of Altecs.

It's a poor workman who blames his tools. I have seen good engineers make silk purses out of sow's ear equipment.

If the digital gear is better than the operator-99% of engineers on the planet- no amount of analog will make one whit of difference.