Analogue Versus Digital Survey

Help me out by filling out this survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FTK5FCJ

 

Thanks guys!

 

Edit: The results will be used to formulate a measure for a study I am conducting for my Honors thesis. Message me for more information if you are interested.

Edited June 22, 2013 by Hoodie

Just filled it out. When do we get to see the result?

Hoodie = NSA.

  On 6/22/2013 at 10:33 PM, jejunum said:

Just filled it out. When do we get to see the result?

 

I'm also posting this survey on various subreddits. I'm going to wait a couple of days to get the most data I can. Feel free to spread it around to your friends--anyone, even non-musicians. It would help a lot!

kdone. good luck.

wat are u studying

5 words is a bit much to describe the sound quality alone, i can think of maybe 3. i can think of a lot of words to describe the sonic quality.

Edited June 23, 2013 by RadarJammer

Out of curiosity, what question are you trying to shed light on with this survey? And what made you choose to set it up this way?

Done.

digital vinyls

Interesting idea, but I don't really know how much information you will gain from so few, and so open ended questions. You should be more specific, and ask questions with the same answer in different ways for control. I'm curious what the results are, but if I were your professor I would be skeptical about letting you cite such a thin survey as research.

Can we win an iPod?

 

(done, btw)

  On 6/23/2013 at 10:46 AM, slightlydrybeans said:

Interesting idea, but I don't really know how much information you will gain from so few, and so open ended questions. You should be more specific, and ask questions with the same answer in different ways for control. I'm curious what the results are, but if I were your professor I would be skeptical about letting you cite such a thin survey as research.

so many assumptions. i'm using this information to construct a scale. i also could've constructed the scale using my imagination, but basing it on responses from musicians is more interesting.

Am I in trouble for putting "Lush" as my answer four times for each analogue and digital? =(

Done!

I did it. It's interesting for me because I deal with pro digital recording gear and a couple of analog synths. Kind of apples and oranges, but I did my best.

  On 6/23/2013 at 7:30 PM, A/D said:

I did it. It's interesting for me because I deal with pro digital recording gear and a couple of analog synths. Kind of apples and oranges, but I did my best.

 

cool, thanks for filling it out. see, that's why i posted about this on here. it's great to get input from people who actually regularly deal with both types of equipment instead of folks with vague notions about what analogue and digital mean.

took.

Done!

 

Interested in seeing what others said. I'm a big tape fanatic and vintage audio fan but generally listen and record digitally on a daily basis, so actually thinking about analog vs digital sound made me realize things I normally don't think of with the two formats.

thought the first question was a warm-up, was surprised it was the only one..

  On 6/23/2013 at 5:59 PM, Hoodie said:

 

  On 6/23/2013 at 10:46 AM, slightlydrybeans said:

Interesting idea, but I don't really know how much information you will gain from so few, and so open ended questions. You should be more specific, and ask questions with the same answer in different ways for control. I'm curious what the results are, but if I were your professor I would be skeptical about letting you cite such a thin survey as research.

so many assumptions. i'm using this information to construct a scale. i also could've constructed the scale using my imagination, but basing it on responses from musicians is more interesting.

 

ah right. That makes perfect sense. :p

done

the survey has now been complete. i got a total of 57 usable responses, great turn out. here's a list of the words in all the responses in alphabetical order with the frequency in parentheses by the word (if there is no number, that means it only appeared once).

 

for analogue, the most frequent words are:

 

alive (7)

distortion (7)

noisy (10)

organic (9)

rich (7)

warm (31)

 

for digital, the most frequent words are:

 

accurate (7)

clean (21)

clear (11)

cold (18)

harsh (8)

precise (7)

 

i need to find a better way to analyze this list as there are a lot of synonyms so it could change the results. this is only a preliminary look. thanks for participating!

 

edit: i couldn't attach the list, so here it is copy/pasted.

 

Analogue

aged

Alien

Alive(7)

balance

Bass

Beautiful(2)

beefy

big

bloated

blurry(2)

Changing(2)

chaotic

Character(2)

Charming

cheap

chunky

clear

cliched

cluttered

Colorful(3)

comfort

Complete

compression

constant

cosmic

crackling(2)

crisp(2)

danceable

dark

deep(3)

delicious

dense

different

difficult

dimension

direct

Dirty(5)

distinct

Distortion(7)

Diverse

drifting

dynamic(5)

electrical(3)

evocative

exciting

expensive(2)

fat

Fidelity

flawed

Flowing

fluid

friendly

Full(6)

Fun(2)

Fuzzy(6)

garbage

Girthy

grain

grounded

growling

Harmony(3)

Hazy

Heritage

Hiss(3)

hum

human

Imperfect(3)

Imprecise

Inconsistent(2)

inviting

involving

known

layered

lifelike

loud

Lush(4)

malleable

messy

metallic

misrepresented

moving

muddy

muffle

musical

natural(3)

nice

noisy(10)

non-digital

nostalgic

nuanced

old

open

orange

organic(9)

organ-like

original

overdriven(3)

overhyped

personal

physical

pleasing

pop

powerful(2)

programming

pulse

pure

raw(4)

real

reminiscent

resonant(2)

rich(7)

robust

rolled

round(3)

saturated(3)

sensuous

scratchy

slow

smell

smooth(4)

soft(5)

soothing

surprising

systematic

tactile(2)

tangible

textured

thick

thin

transparent

troublesome

uncompressed

uncontrollable

unedited

unexpected

unique

unpredictable(5)

unstable

vibrant

warm(31)

warped

washed out

weak

weird

wet

whole

wonky

wrong

 

Digital

Abrasive

abrupt

accurate(7)

affordable

Aliasing(2)

alien

Approximate(2)

awesome

Binary

bitperfect

blue

Boring(3)

Bright(2)

brittle

calculated(2)

capable

clean(21)

clear(11)

clinical

clipped(2)

clubby

cold(18)

common

complete

complex

computer

convenient

cool

crisp(5)

crystalline

designed

detailed(2)

different

digital(2)

direct

distance

distorted

distributable

divided

dry(2)

dull

easy(3)

edited

empty(2)

exact(2)

experimental

fast

fatiguing

flat(3)

full

gain

grating

gritty

hard

harsh(8)

hollow

incomplete

infinite

inhuman

interesting

lifeless(2)

limited

linear

lossless

keyboard

lasting

loud(2)

lucid

malleable

manufactured

matrix

mean

mechanical

metallic

misrepresented

misunderstood

misused

modern(2)

muddy

natural

neutral(2)

new(2)

noise

nonreactive

numbers

one-dimensional

organized

perfect(5)

piercing

Plastic(3)

pliable

Poignanta

polished

pompous

possibility

powerful(2)

Precise(7)

predictable

Preset

pristine

professional(2)

punchy

Pure(2)

quality

Quantized

quick

Quiet(2)

range

recallable

reliable(2)

replicable

resilient

revealing

Rigid(4)

Robotic(2)

Rough

Sampled

Sharp(10)

Shiny

skrillex

smooth(2)

Snappy

Solid(2)

Sonic

sparkly

Sparse

Spatial

stable

stale

static(3)

sterile(3)

subordinate

soulless

synthesis

tight(2)

tinny(4)

transparent

true(2)

useful

undistorted

uninteresting

unlimited

unsurprising

utilitarian

vapid

wide

 

Edited July 8, 2013 by Hoodie

come to think of it, digital DOES kind of sound skrillexy

Shrillexy, sexy in a shrill manner.