I used to be one (and a recording engineer) from the mid/late '80s into the early '90s. It was a part-time thing that consumed all of my time :-)
It was a mixed digital/analog world then. Signal processing was (as it is now) pretty much all-digital. Recording depended on where - in the studio it was usually analog. Out of the studio it was usually DAT. We really wished we could afford the bigger digital recorders. Hard disk recording hadn't been invented yet.
I had a couple of Tascam boards (a small one and a BIG one), two Tascam multi-track recorders (8 and 16 track), a vintage RR two-track, various mikes, and a whole rack full of signal processors from Alesis, ART and Digitech. I think the DAT was a Tascam as well. We had a good relationship with the area Tascam rep.
I was a keyboard player, and had a room full of digital and analog synths and samplers.
My buddies are still plugging away, and they are all-digital now. Pretty much the only thing left in the signal chain that's analog are the musicians.
It was a mixed digital/analog world then. Signal processing was (as it is now) pretty much all-digital. Recording depended on where - in the studio it was usually analog. Out of the studio it was usually DAT. We really wished we could afford the bigger digital recorders. Hard disk recording hadn't been invented yet.
I had a couple of Tascam boards (a small one and a BIG one), two Tascam multi-track recorders (8 and 16 track), a vintage RR two-track, various mikes, and a whole rack full of signal processors from Alesis, ART and Digitech. I think the DAT was a Tascam as well. We had a good relationship with the area Tascam rep.
I was a keyboard player, and had a room full of digital and analog synths and samplers.
My buddies are still plugging away, and they are all-digital now. Pretty much the only thing left in the signal chain that's analog are the musicians.