Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Analogue Overview

Analogue is the concept of producing physical sound, through th methods of impriting (cutting even) sound onto disks. Analogues is considered to be a warmer and real sound that performs a better overall quality than a digital alternative.

The most important feature of Analogue is that it is real. Unlike digitial, it's sounds produce waves, rather than digitally created via special software, and for that matter, created using real instrucments (although digital can perform the same concept).

There are two main formats of Analogue sound, one format is Vinyl. Which is the old way of imprinting groves onto a alluminium disk, coated in special black liquid. It is replayed by a pin running through the groves and replaying the sound. Another format is Magenetic tapes, which magentically imprint sound onto it, one downfall however is you scratch the suface of this disk, the area skips that particular area.

Personally, I am in favour of Digital, due to the basis that it is quick, of a high enough quality for my standard, and compresses down well to work in video games or projects without overdrawing it.

Amplifier is a form of Analogue format.

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