All One
Posted on | June 22, 2008 |
As a forty-year-old mastering engineer, I have enough perspective to appreciate the analog world (reel-to-reel and vinyl), the early digital world (CDs), and the current digital formats (compressed-format downloads and high-res. stereo and multi-channel). I also have enough professional drive to be involved in whatever the future of audio holds. This is one of the values of having been around for a while. Perspective and experience.
What you’ll notice if you look at the list of formats above is that they’re just that: formats. In all of them, the basic precepts of good audio never change. And, they never will. Regardless of genre, recording format, or storage medium music is all about sound particles that interact with air to create vibrations which our ears perceive.
There’s a philosophical saying: “Many Paths, One Truth.” This adage applies well to audio because though musicians may be proponents of various musical styles or recording formats, in the end it’s all music.
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