What is the difference between analog and digital mixers?
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> an·a·log
> a person or thing seen as comparable to another
In general, *analog* means a signal is directly encoded into an electrical current. So the electrical current is comparable to the original signal. In the case of sound, the vibrations in the air are translated into “vibrations” in the electrical current.
Digital means the signal is first translated into 0s and 1s, which is then carried by the electrical current as low or high voltage. Since the 0s and 1s carried by the electrical current is meaningless without a translation step, it’s not comparable to the original signal.
For analog mixers, since the electrical current is directly analogous to the sound, they can directly manipulate the current itself to manipulate the sound.
For digital mixers, the “sound” got translated into what’s essentially just numbers. They have to do math to manipulate the sound.
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