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Originally Posted by James 'LA' Lugo For me I think it matters more with drums than anything. I don't like roomy sounding guitars, I like them up close and in you face. I just edited a record that was tracked at Avatar and there were eliments of the record that bothered me. Mostly it was this big roomy sound on everything, it just doesn't sound like what I hear on modern rock radio and that's the style of music I do. My room is much tighter sounding. |
I wouldn't necessarily blame the room for that. In this day and age, there is no reason not to close mic a guitar amp and put a room mic on another track. Unless they wanted a roomy sounding guitar and didn't want to give you a choice!
I read threads about engineers struggling over drum sounds. I did a session this spring with Steve Smith, who is an amazing drummer, which of course is half the battle. Sound check was done in ten minutes.
In my book, the room is everything.