For the last two decades, the music production world has been divided into two camps: the Analog Purists and the Digital Pragmatists. The purists argue that without the physical friction of iron oxide, music lacks "soul." The pragmatists argue that in a world of infinite revisions, the analog workflow is an expensive bottleneck. At SonalSystem, we believe this is a false dichotomy. We don’t live in a world of "Either/Or." We live in the era of the Hybrid Soundscape. The most "expensive" sounding records of the modern era—from haunting cinematic scores to industrial soundscapes—are a calculated blend of both. Our...
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