music : vocals/voiceover : set up/tracking : live vs. overdubs : digital vs. analog

digital vs. analog

Of course, with a name like Digiphonic Studios, you would expect us to use digital equipment to record and mix everything. But you analog audiophiles out there need not worry. Everything is routed through analog equipment. Microphones, tube preamps, processors, the mixing board – everything is analog. Digital only aids us in the end. Once the sound has the analog "color" we're looking for, digital takes over in capturing the sound to disk at a very high sample rate of 96kHz/24 bit. This more accurately represents the original analog sound.

It is only at that point, digital takes over. We mix and produce on our digital platform system. But, analog isn't out of the loop entirely yet. Once we have a mix that we like, we re-route our mix though our outboard analog mastering equipment for that nice and lush analog mastered sound. We can do this because we record everything at such a high sample rate. Then the final master is converted down to CD quality on our CD mastering deck. Or, we can even put it on a master cassette for you old school fanatics out there.