Leslie Ann Jones of Skywalker Sound Discusses Recording Media

[cionepro]

I'm just blown away with Leslie Ann since there are hardly any female engineers in the biz.

[Zylstra555]

I agree largely with the fact that digital recording still has a long ways to go in many respects. Analog still seems to record sound "as it is", while digital largely fails to do just that; largely because of how digital recording formats like MP3 work, quality is lost and many things are "cut out" since they are in a range that many people won't notice or can't hear.

I've never experimented with reel-to-reel tape recoding or playback with high quality equipment, but now I want to!

[paulj0557]

I'm a musician who found many years ago that the secret to good musical creativity is listening to others. I've noticed more and more that there is a new generation of players that don't play instruments, but they play the sounds that others have put down...wait a minute, this is not new. This has always been the life of a recording engineer and producer. As a musician I once had the pleasure of knowing an artist who couldn't play an instrument, but he was a wiz with tape loops. Learned a lesson

[kentrel2]

Wow, this must be old.

[Zylstra555]

@kentrel2 No later than 2003.