Buddy Miller on analog vs. digital recording, 2009

"I had a Studer A80 two-inch machine, but it started to be too much of a pain in the neck. It would slow down or speed up at the end of a reel, and I’d always have to be making adjustments. So I did switch over to digital, and you know it’s a trade-off. It’s kind of like making soup without heat. Everything sounds so sharp—it’s clean but in not a great way. You can find a way to make it mix together, to turn it into delicious soup, but it’s a lot more work. The analog tape had something that made it easier to do that. They’re making plug-ins now to simulate [the tape sound], but they don’t quite get there."

From my Buddy Miller interview in the September 2010 issue of Acoustic Guitar. Read the full story here.