digitzing beats

Hey,
Can anyone tell me how I can get my Beats in digital form without loosing the power.

i normally record on tape and then add guitars and what else and then i record it with a m-audio microtrack 2.
NOW the problem is that the richness and size of the sound goes like that:
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|.................| .wav
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|.................On
|.................Tape
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Live
From
The
Mixer

This means that the range gets smaller in every step of recording

THats pissing me off.
what do you do to keep the punch and what tips can you give me on setting the level in digital recording. what about normalizing and where to start in learning mastering?

Peace,
Flo

Thats the old AD/DA converter game. Always use 24bit while recording from your mpc or whatever to your daw. I prefer [email protected]. Thats plenty headroom:

16 bit <=> 65536
24 bit <=> 16777215

check:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog-to-digital_converter

Good luck getting the digital to sound as full as the tape. Dudes spend 10's of thousands trying to recreate the same image tape gives. Try Lavry AD122-96mk2, or Apogee Rosetta 200. Also the API A2D might be a good option.

Damn thats way over my budget. mh why is simple signal conversion so expensive?

Flub wrote:Damn thats way over my budget. mh why is simple signal conversion so expensive?

Good question. Probably because you are paying for their cutting edge knowledge and research.

but that should be how it goes... paying products which where made as good as possible for an achievable price. this price is not affordable for the most not yet famous musicians.

so you guys are sure that i cannot get the pressure coming out of my mixer digital for less than 5000 whatever ?

-FLo

Either have somebody properly eq & master your material, or get yourself a program or two such as Ozone and try that.

I've spent years searching for that ultimate sound myself and feel I finally have the tools to get it. It's just that now I get a bit lazy and don't want to spend enough time to go through the processes of making my stuff sound like it's supposed to.

dabmeister wrote:Either have somebody properly eq & master your material, or get yourself a clue.

fixed



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nlzwDfxVSg

lmao

^^^ LOL