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Originally Posted by Tony Shepperd  Interesting thoughts Blackened.
Unfortunately I spend most of my day correcting bad musicians.
If more musicians would practice more and learn their instruments better, my job would be a helluva lot easier.
Drummers that can't play in time.
Bass players with bad tone and no bottom end.
Guitar players that can't tune properly.
String players with bad intonation.
If you are going to be a pro on either side of the glass, you've got to step up and bring your A Game. |
Some of this is very true . . . BUT at the same time, engineers / producers who auto correct / auto tune / put everything on the beat / copy and paste / sound replace etc etc . . . have created an atmosphere for many to NOT woodshed with their instruments. They don't HAVE to practice anymore!
If people can't play, or they want me to do all that crap, I tell them not to come here. Personally I track mostly to tape though I also have a PT HD2 Accel (is that how I am suppose to say it?) . . but I feel this is one of the issues, people are so used to having engineers / producers correct everything in a computer. Sure we splice some tape in the old days (still do), but all this computer editing has created a scenario of half assed musicians. PLUS, many engineers producers correct things when they shouldn't. Let it move and breathe! Let there be some humanness.
The days of guys making records who do not know where middle C is on a keyboard started with sequencers / samplers and computers (for the most part). And the producers / engineers soon followed. Now it is out of hand. Don't forget videos turned the business away from musicians and gave us so called 'stars'. Pretty sad to think some A&R guy may not sign Joplin or Hendrix today because they may not be "video ready".
I'm amazed at how many people call here looking for a job who say they have years of experience as a producer / engineer who have never mic'd a drum kit or piano. They are midi and computer or PTs technicians, not a recording engineers per se. So all this 'ease of use' and computers has created some real half assed stuff all around in many areas. The 1000s of guys who open up little basement studios would must likely not have done so if they had to buy a console, a 2 inch machine, outboard gear, a piano, amps etc etc and have some abilities as a musician. But amp farm or sound replacer or sampled instruments etc etc rather then getting the real things and learning how to use them. So I understand 'somewhat' what the original poster is saying.