| I don't post often and I don't want to offend you GILFOIL, a few month ago I was thinking the same. But things changed when I had the chance to learn from some old folks bands, who started playing their instruments before I was even a sperm or planned. There was this one guy called Peter Weihe(legendary guitarist in germany), who gave a workshop in berlin recently. He showed us some recordings he made with his collection of guitar amps also some orchestral recordings made at the abbey roads studio. After he showed that to us, many certainly realized how crappy our recordings with emulations/synths are. But he also mentioned, it's sad that we all have to make our mixes so loud, since we got the widest dynamic range ever with the 48bits summing points we got now(yes, it was a digidesign event). The loudness-war maybe not our fault(many people today get confused when there's more than 6dB dynamic in a finished product), but our ignorance in saying there's no preceptible difference between emulation and hardware is certainly one reason why some major recordings start to sound unenjoyable. If you have some young musicians and teach them, that there's no difference beweteen emulation and hardware, they'll just spend less money on their equipment because they know you have some plugins that emulate guitar amps. Somehow I hit these musicians all the time and it's very frustrating, because no matter how hard you try, if the first signal in the chain doesn't sound good, nothing will ever make it sound good. It will sound ok, but ok isn't good. Kinda like fastfood compared to moms or grandmas food ;)
Just my 2 cents, sorry for the rant. If I'm too much of an hardware freak, I'm sorry, but always mixing in the box kinda makes leaves me unsatisfied lately. |