Distortion occurs when the sound is distorted during its transmission, and that is precisely what an A/D or D/A converter does with the audio signal, however expensive it may be. That is why we must avoid its use and stick to using it, as far as possible, in the obligatory stages of recording the instrument and playing it through the listening monitors.

At Digital Mastering we exclusively use digital equipment, without converters and without the wiring that would be essential to connect all that analog equipment and return the signal back to the digital platform. Because in addition, all the cables would provide electrical resistance, which would result in a level attenuation of the musical passage. The connectors, two per cable, would also create an electrical condenser effect filtering the frequencies, as a signal equalizer.

If you want to improve your mix by mastering it, you must maintain the fidelity of the original sound. So why distort the signal during the process?

Digital Mastering uses professional quality analog hardware modeling technology, which allows us to obtain all the nuances of classic processors but without leaving the digital environment and therefore without additional distortions. We use, for example, digital hardware modeling, such as that presented by the famous Dutch firm Weiss, together with the audio hardware and software company Softube. Together they made a line-by-line copy of the internal algorithms used by the DSP of the renowned Weiss DS1-MK3 mastering dynamics processor and implemented it in even more versatile software.

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We also make use of and, at the same time, echo the study and investigation of analog hardware that has established Acustica Audio as a clear reference. A few years ago, AA coined the term "Analog Emulation", to indicate an innovative process whereby a piece of software tries to mimic the acoustic behavior of a hardware device. This process was able to come very close to the magnificence and charm of the analog sound, but could not actually achieve exactly a 100% precise match.

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Over time, other developers have abused the term many times, often claiming to have arrived at "the" perfect software simulation. So at AA they wanted to change the game: today they use the term "Dreamware" to describe a software implementation based on different analog "emulations", which combined simultaneously and generously in a dream software, evokes something that cannot exist in the analog domain or in the digital recreations of other manufacturers.