Some existing analog equipment will be less functional with the use of a converter box.
"There was no air-conditioning, few telephone lines and Russian analog equipment from the 1940's."
Faltermeyer was a good choice for producer as he happened to be an expert on analog equipment.
The band also decided to use old analog equipment instead of more popular digital recording gear.
In 1994, the issue was digitized, and since then the transmission quality can not be matched with analog equipment.
All music tracks are produced by basic analog equipment, without the use of computers.
The whole album was recorded with analog equipment only.
These sound more like the Pearl transfers; the methodology was basically similar, using traditional analog equipment.
However, large installed bases of analog professional equipment still exist, particularly in third world countries.
This analog equipment is expensive to maintain and transmits data at very low speeds.