[A6] modern analogs

[Rhen, Kris]

> > I'm starting to get the opinion
> > that you simply can't build a big, fat sounding analog
> > synth using ASICS, surface mount components, and modern
> > multi-layer circuit boards.
> 
> Isn't that generally accepted knowledge already? I've always 
> understood that synths (or indeed any audio cicuitry) with discrete 
> components will always sound "fatter" and "warmer" than stuff 
> made with integrated circuits - at least in this universe.

I think surface mount and multi-layer circuitboards probably don't have much
to do with the sound, but the ASICs might.  Surface mount is just another
way of soldering (as opposed to through-hole).  Circuitboards are just wires
embedded in plastic (or such).  Am I wrong?  Thanks
KRIS