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No one ever convinced us that recording one part at a time was better. Because it isn't.
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Man, it's not even debatable. I always knew this - but boy was it re-enforced in my head like a sledgehammer yesterday.
I was at a symphony rehearsal yesterday watching them work with a new young conductor who's star is rising fast. I was amazed on how much liberty was taken with the tempo (more than you'd think - but it's so musical and fluid you don't even realize it).
Actually that's what they were rehearsing the most, little parts here and there. And in the conductors words to the orchestra - imagine this part as reaching the top of a roller coaster just before going down, and then he motioned with his arm enacting the feeling of rush going down the roller coaster.
Anyhow, you can't do this on a grid. And if you remember that the emotion of the notes come from dynamics and tempo - we're in deep KaKa here with some modern trends of recording to a grid and then squishing out the dynamics. It's kind of funny really, a few decades from now people will listen to some of this stuff wondering what the hell everyone was thinking
