A VERY big part of the reason I do what I do, is to pay pennance for being raised in the religion of Pro Audio in my formative years and preaching what we were taught in church about "vintage is always better" "analog is always better than digital" "Mic preamps that test the same still sound different and you need to spend at least 2500 dollars per channel"
All that bullshit
One of the biggest Fatwas this religion had in the 90's was against the ADAT...We had all sorts of proverbs bout how track to track phase would be off between machines, claims about the sounds, etc...All stuff WE DID TEST and found not to be true, but we were told to believe anyway.
Every other post on the early recording newsgroups was about how bad adats sucked, but really, they were great (yes locking up sucked donkey dongles, and there were some reliability issues, but sound was fine)
I feel really bad for being a part of it, and that's why I push so hard when people are telling noobs to spend piles of money on stuff that won't make a difference.
The ADAT rep at the time for the bigger studios I serviced, Jimmy Church, really forced me to take a look at my claims and was a big part of leaving that religion
It is really awesome to hear how such a pioneer created so much of my universe. Its incredible that the ADAT format is still running in my studio every day, (18 cables worth)!
