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Date:	Tue, 1 Jun 2004 22:44:45 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Audio recording / editing programs?

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J. R. Fox wrote:
>
> I'll tell you something else: though there has been a great deal of progress
> made with the digital music chain (which by now rules the musical universe),
> I still think that there is plenty of analog music (on LPs, maybe on
> reel-to-reel) that -- if played back on great equipment -- *still* sounds
> much better musically than almost any cd

It's not just the equipment. The players aren't given enough freedom to
perform.

I just finished recording a 40-song project. This wasn't low-budget
stuff; I used some major studio players -- strings, reeds, keyboards,
acoustic/electric guitars plus the rhythm section. Nine sessions just
to get the basic tracks. And, I'll tell ya, the recording methodology
today is far different from when I was making albums back in the 70's
and 80's.

I did these tracks the old fashioned way. I got all the session players
together in one big room. I told them "no overdubs, pickups or edits".
I told them I wasn't going to do any digital fiddling with the tracks
and what they played is what went into the mix. And I didn't then go
and sit in the plush producer's chair on the other side of the glass; I
stayed in the studio while they recorded and I worked with them to get
the performance that sounded best.

Darned if the players didn't love it. It's more fun and there's more
performance electricity when everybody's playing at the same time and
they can _hear_ what the final mix will sound like. It sounds more
"alive" than if half the tracks are overdubs done by a player sitting
alone in the studio with the cans over his ears, playing his part to
whatever has already been recorded.

You can hear these songs. Soon. The tracks are part of a special OS/2
project I'm working on. (Darned expensive hobby.)

Peter

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