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Originally Posted by slaves666  How do I know it makes it better. It's bass guitar and it needs to lock to the drums and possibly follow the guitar, and if he messes up a part, and I can't copy and paste it from somewhere, there is no alternate take, what is point of leaving a mistake there?
Further, It'll take more time to call him have him come in and sit through bad takes, then the 10 minutes it'll take to complete.
I will go back to the auto-tune, and drum editing comment.....these days there is little remnants of a "band" when we record. So much is done, and so much is changed that to me it really isn't the same band once we are done mixing. They have undergone in some cases Major surgery. Therefore re-tracking a whole or part of a song is only an extension of this. It's not re-writing a song, or changing his parts that he came up with, merely getting his playing tight enough so that when someone hears the final product, they like it. |
Well hell then. Why even have the band come in at all then? Just have them write the music down for you and you can track the whole thing and just call them to come by and pick up the finished product. Is this really what it's all come to now? This is just sad. Based on what you're saying, why even bother recording music anymore? Don't you have any sense of music as art? Does the fact, that music, when done for the right reasons, can be a very personal artistic expression, mean anything to you? For you to go and do this behind the band's back is basically robbing them of that expression. This is what makes this unethical and unexcuseable. Well that and the fact that you wouldn't be here asking this question if you didn't already know the answer deep down. All artistic decisions belong to the artist. Period. If you feel "above" the artist enough to make decisions for them, you are being arrogant and unethical. I can't put it any more simple than that.