PettyCash makes a number of great points here, but the last is the most important. If you want to succeed as a tracking engineer, you should help the artist to progress, not admonish them for their shortcomings. Doing an excellent comp for an artist can be very revealing for them. Also, if you're the first engineer to do that for them, they are likely going to hire you again....because you make them sound better! While I admire your point "Isayitlikeitis", it's not realistic...or friendly. Your job is to help make BETTER records! Just because the technology wasn't available years ago doesn't mean it's not a valid way of making records. If you really believe that, just go ahead and turn in your DAW, keyboards and whatever else you have that is a product of modern engineering. Just my 2 cents.
RW
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Originally Posted by PettyCash  Question is... To the average consumer/listener would it matter whether they did comp her vocals or not? No
To a purist like yourself I can understand why it would matter. Just the thought of comping vocals doesn't feel organic to you, and I can understand that to a certain extent. A thing that bothers me is when I do hear where they comp the vocals (easier to tell with Rap), and it sounds blatant. Other than that it's all good, and when the artist hears what a perfect lead vocal of theirs could sound like they can practice it that way to the point where their performance on stage sounds much like their recording in the studio. |