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In effect, any recording device is just doing exactly the same as a computer is when being used to record music. The machine is taking an electro-mechanical facsimile of the original. It isn't the original and it isn't real. That's why live music sounds so very, very good.

But I guess one day in the not too distant future we'll all be making do with hitting skins and tree trunks with sticks and animal bones. If there are any animals to skin and bone and any trees left that is...

There are differences between recordable formats from magnetic tape 1/4, to 2 inch, DATS, CDs and vynil, it`s how its then recorded on to the computer, either for putting on a format like CDs.
In the end its still hands on of setting record levels with a good recording, the more you invole the computer the more it gets away from the original sound.
I mean music that was made before computers.
All the best producers didn`t have the computer, there were computerized drum machines and the Casio Tone with its beats and keyboard.

Its how you use it, CDs, computers, for me to test a recording I would put it throgh a analogue graphic equalizer and if its been digitally re-mastered all the sounds sound muffled and distorted once you bring up the hz, Khz, lows, mids and tops and restricts any change in the sound, so when Shaka plays a tune a lot of people have, it sounds so much more different than if someone else played the very same record.

peace