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Originally Posted by recall  Are we not recording music where a true representation of a performane is the goal? |
I tend to want to make a recording where something unique and interesting is happening each moment - something that really catches the ear. I couldn't care less if it's a true representation of a performance. A sitar player and I were waiting on a client to show up the other day. The client had one specific sitar droney type part in mind, but, since he wasn't there, I decided to experiment. I pitch shifted all the guitar to where it could be heard as based on the same root, then had the sitar player over dub a performance, then unshifted the guitar and shifted the sitar to match, and, voila! - a fascinating sound, yet a totally false representation of the performance. Read Geoff Emerick's book. Recording stopped being solely about capturing a true representation of a peformance more than 50 years ago. Gain staging is important on the other hand. Setting your pre's to get the optimal sound on each track is the only approach that makes sense to me. Monitor mixes are best totally divorced from gain staging IMO.