Recording analog live

Using for example a reel to reel tape recorder.


How? Would the following be a great way?


Sending in a loud signal using class A operating prepreamps (Pleiades K117 for example).


So a loud an low noise signal feeds the recorder. The recorder then creates volume, instatenious peak limiting, high average level etc. each instrument may have its own mic. For how to combine many mics see other euroelectron posts by searching on Google.


Monitor out from the recorder loudspeaker if for example synths or drum machine is recorded can be set to low so that the singer sings in tune (see other posts).


An other alternative may be feeding the prepreamp signals to a Pleiades analog simulator or analog magnetic tape recording using a saturated interstage transformer. More on other posts.


Which of the 2 ways would sound best when feeding A to D converters?


References:


Tubes vs transistors is there an audible difference - Russel O. Hamm -JAES


Making Records - Phil Ramone


General references:


Applied Electronics - T.S. Gray - MIT


Electronics, a systems approach - Neil Storey


A practical introduction to electronic circuits - Martin Hartley Jones