> cover feature / the essential guide to analogue dirt
If you’re old enough to remember the 1980s, you’ll recall it was a time when ‘digital’ became the cool, new thing. And not just in music production. Everything went digital, from clocks to watches, from cash tills to calculators. And in music making we got the skips in to take our compressors and great big modular synths away! In came digital synths, computers, hard disc recording and endless ones and zeros. Forget those silly knobs and dials kids – we had endless menus to step through and could now record in binary! Forget tape, hiss, noise and wobble – clean audio perfection was just round the corner!