sean.boyer wrote:Yeah, I can totally get behind that. It's just not for me, for my projects (now CLIENT projects are a whole different story. If someone else is paying me, I'll stand on the desk covered in coco powder weeping into a cereal bowl of wet news paper strips and banana slices while playing a keytar that's been glued to the wall with my nose, if it's what they really want. That said, I'll sure as hell try to talk them into instead simply getting someone who can play piano to sit down and play the piano, but hey, they're holding the $$gun$$, so what ev'.)
sean.boyer wrote:Lucky for me, I get to do almost all the recording for my own bands, and I have the pleasure of setting them up however I want, and using whatever methods and practices I deem appropriate during tracking and mixing. The other band members will give me their input, and I will consider it, discuss, and when applicable, concede to their direction.
We should all be so lucky. I'm curious to see how your methods would change when the clock is on and the clients are bat-shit crazy. I have no doubt you'd make it work beautifully, but it's a whole different story that can only be solved with an iron will and a bottle of good scotch.
sean.boyer wrote:I've heard a few recordings where the snare had been sampled, through out the whole song even, and I never noticed, and still can't hear it when I listen even though I know, so I guess it can be done, and done transparently.
It can be done very transparently, I do it all the time.
I've also heard some local recordings where I'm expecting the drums to sound real, and I hear a bad stock snare sample that's loud, annoying and isn't even adjusted for dymamics. You can image how awesome that sounds on fills. So I ask the drummer what the deal is with the obvious snare sample. He is all pissed off, he hates it. So I ask him where he was when the mix was revealed and why he didn't say anything then. I never really did get an answer...
So they spend X thousands of dollars and then just let the engineer run amok? Interesting way to work.
sean.boyer wrote:That's me though. I don't begrudge anyone else for whatever things they do, as long as they sound good.
Same here... but when they don't, I still have to bite my tongue for fear that I come off as a snob...