But someone know about Elseq, it does sound pretty analog hw to my ears.
I canât remember if that one was mentioned specifically in any of the AMAs but Sean did mention that they do try and make certain things sound analog which is obvious really, but the most relevant thing I can think of.
It could also be that whatever was done in the box was run through an analog mastering chain before being pressed up since stuff like that can do wonders. I was amazed at how effective running my old Iridiumâs output through a stereo VCA was at taking away the digital glare. It wasnât even saturating or anything, shouldâve been totally clean but it really took the edge off very nicely.
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Ah yeah, youâre right. Tim Heckerâs approach purportedly changes with each album, although I remember reading in some interview that there was an era where he was almost entirely in the box (besides the fact that he was sampling live musicians) I mustâve took that bit of info and logged it in my mind as âTim Hecker is an in the box musicianâ
thats still pro - if thats your sole source of income then its your profession!! living the dream!!
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Technically he did use hardware since the loop he used was made on his drum brute.
If youâre willing to put the time and effort in, you can make anything sound analogue without it actually being analogue.
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Which one was that?
It was going through a Xaoc Ostrawa mixer which does saturate quite nicely but wouldnât have been at low gain. The Iridium was boosted to Euro level with a Ladik Octal Line-In beforehand.
I shouldâve tried it just coming out of the Ladik really since that was where most of the boosting happened, maybe even that wouldâve been enough.
You wouldnât really say the sound was altered as such but it was the difference between âsome of these frequencies are annoying my earsâ and âthis is now pleasant to listen toâ. I wouldnât be surprised if an Analog Heat or OTO BOUM had a similar effect when set cleanly.
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burial, but reality is fuck knows what he does use
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Four Tet plays guitar and other instruments in his new album. In his first band he just played guitar? understood that he uses loops that he recorded throughout his career using drum machines. I think he as always liked to spread the message that you donât need anything fancy to make music, from speakers, to instruments. But he does have a superb hifi system and is posting videos of him using a pulsar 23, for example.
As other have written, itâs and harder exercise to find pro artists that use only hardware than the opposite. I would say that using hardware itâs more about going against the norm and trying to sound different. Or because itâs fun.
Regarding Boris Brejcha (Brecha? Breja? 
) Being elevator music, the same can be said regarding all type of dance music, or music to be danced. There is a whole new dimension of a techno, house, garage, music that emerges when listened on a good PA, specially in a good party full of people dancing and having fun. Right?
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just roll off the highsâŚ
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Most pro artists donât think of a computer/laptop as ânot hardwareâ, or arenât arsed, and focus on making music while weâre debating this kind of thing on forums. 
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I was hoping it wasnât a modular! 
Regarding AH⌠i had a mk2 and sold it because it didnât have that effect and it wasnât that good for destroying the sound either! I havenât tried the Boum so i canât comment about it.
I want to buy a stereo processor that would give me that analog flavor but im not sure what to buy. I tried to ask about it on Gearslutz once and according to their recommendations, i should spend 10k euros 
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Thereâs so many people doing that right now and I think they feel like they need to have all this gear to do anything, and in reality you could do the same thing with a computer. People are almost a bit surprised when they find out that I donât have a lot of gear, I feel like your computer is your biggest tool and itâs often overlooked.
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True. I try to read artist interviews as much as possible. So far I am only aware of one person who is strictly hardware. Refuses to even have a computer: Mike Parker
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Wire: What did you think when people were saying that you hadnât produced it all in Sound Forge, itâs a scam.
Burial: Who?
Wire: People on the internet, saying he canât possibly have done that whole album in Sound Forge.
Burial: Really? Yeah well I did. Iâll leave those people to their internet or whatever. Yeah I wish sometimes that Iâd gone to college to learn music production, but other times Iâm like âno, fuck, Iâm happy I didnâtâ.
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Ah, Iâm surprised the Analog Heat didnât do that job.
I wouldnât want to tempt anyone down the modular path but for a similar amount of money to an AH you could get a 4ms Pod of your choice, a cheap (but good quality) Ladik input/output module and a few Doepfer modules or whatever for processing. That could be pretty powerful and nicely hands-on in a small footprint.
Tubes are also great for smoothing out digital, maybe a simple desktop tube amp could be an option? Iâve been buying records all my life and when I got a tube amp I couldnât believe how flattering it was to digital sources, to the point where if it wasnât for the compression on most modern digital stuff I could happily get rid of all my records. 80s CD masterings tend to sound amazing through it.
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Daisuke Tanabe is mostly Ableton Iâm pretty sure.
Ilkae, another favorite artist of mine, is mostly tracker based I believe. Maybe renoise
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