Analog and Digital Recording
The science of recording sound has come a long way since the early days of vinyl records or even cassette tapes. Though there are still quite a few of us who remember those days, most of us are glad to leave them behind in favor of more reliable and better quality digital recordings in the form of CDs or MP3s and a myriad of other digital formats.
However, despite the supposed benefits of digital recording, there are still musicians and audio engineers who prefer the sounds that come from analog recording. Analog differs from digital in the way it is captured. Analog recording stores the audio signals in the form of a continual wave in or on the media. This continual wave can be stored in a few different ways for playback. On records, the wave is stored as a texture or in other recordings it is stored as fluctuation in the field of strength of a magnetic recording, like a tape. Digital recording, however, converts the audio signal into a stream of discrete numbers by recording the air pressure through time.
Most recording studios today function only as digital recording studios because of the time and money saved through the digital process. Because of this, analog recording has nearly become obsolete. And yet, some musicians prefer the way analog recording sounds and feels in comparison to a digital recording. For these musicians, finding a studio that can do both digital and analog recording can be difficult.
Residents of Dallas, TX looking for both analog and digital capacities need look no further than Eagle Audio Recording studio. Because it was established in 1984, Eagle Audio Recording began as an analog studio and later updated with the dual capacity of digital recording. Musicians looking for a recording studio in Dallas will find that Eagle Audio Recording has the ability to offer the best of both worlds.