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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 131551" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Analog comeback?This is not a technology thing as much as economics. We could make a digital console and limit it&#039;s functions to analog-like work flow. It would work and sound exactly like an analog console (ASsuming proper execution, and perhaps measure better). But the marketing department would never allow engineering to put all that horsepower under the hood and not take full advantage of digital&#039;s ability to repurpose circuit blocks and controls. Such a dedicated console could easily get beat on paper by a far cheaper digital work flow version. If you and like minded friends are willing to pay for more encoders and less capability someone might sell it to you. let me suggest another option, and I have thought about this too. As we approach generic digital processing engines, with remote control capability, why doesn&#039;t somebody make an old school analog mimic control surface that could talk to the digital engine du jour. The only missing pieces in my mind, are lack of standardization for EQ bandwidth, but pretty much the rest of the parts needed to completely mimic an XYZ console in digital is already here. We could even make the control laws similar, but making the EQ sound the same is a final piece of the puzzle IMO. JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 131551, member: 126"] Re: Analog comeback? This is not a technology thing as much as economics. We could make a digital console and limit it's functions to analog-like work flow. It would work and sound exactly like an analog console (ASsuming proper execution, and perhaps measure better). But the marketing department would never allow engineering to put all that horsepower under the hood and not take full advantage of digital's ability to repurpose circuit blocks and controls. Such a dedicated console could easily get beat on paper by a far cheaper digital work flow version. If you and like minded friends are willing to pay for more encoders and less capability someone might sell it to you. let me suggest another option, and I have thought about this too. As we approach generic digital processing engines, with remote control capability, why doesn't somebody make an old school analog mimic control surface that could talk to the digital engine du jour. The only missing pieces in my mind, are lack of standardization for EQ bandwidth, but pretty much the rest of the parts needed to completely mimic an XYZ console in digital is already here. We could even make the control laws similar, but making the EQ sound the same is a final piece of the puzzle IMO. JR [/QUOTE]

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