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In Reply to: Now here I was, laughing & having a good time, reminiscing & relating to the post and posted by artemus on February 16, 2007 at 05:31:08:
By virtue of the fact of the the typical A&R weenie actuall is an A&R weenie, - he is going to think that he's "creative" and is going to want to influence the product. Many times, a band manager has to work pretty hard to keep the record company OUT of the studio. A producer and engineer and band have a lot to worry about, and often, sound quality takes a real back seat to content. Besides the fact that musicians and songwriters are MOST concerned with content, - they get into the bad habit of not listening for fidelity. Does that horn part work with the rest of the song?Then there're engineers, who have to worry about the details.
I remember spending hours and hours tracking down some hiss that one of the drum mics was picking up.
An engineer or producer who has been taught to throw some crappy compressor on during the final mix to insure that there're no quiet parts in the song to eliminate "dead air" for the radio is a huge problem. The band is not paying the engineer and producer, the record company is. The producer and engineer have to walk an incredibly fine line between what the band wants and what the record company wants: in can be an insanely stressful and tense situation when the band and the record company butt heads with the producer and engineer smack in the middle of it all.....There's a tremendous amount of pressure to do what everybody else does, which can lead to a poor recording. Look at U2s the "Unforgettable Fire." A great batch of songs, with some amazing talent, - Brian Eno, - doing the recording and the band's playing of the music. Some amazing performances, - IMO. But hampered by one of the WORST sounding recordings ever. You gotta wonder who messed up that recording. How could they have done such an amazing job on the content and overlooked the sound quality of the recording?
Watching the reel as it comes to a close,
Brutally taking it's time,
People who change for no reason at all,
It's happening all of the time.
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Follow Ups
- Hey, it's not so easy....... - Sordidman 06:49:38 02/16/07 (3)
- Good points. What i was trying to say is - artemus 08:09:47 02/16/07 (0)
- All good points... - Sean 07:51:51 02/16/07 (1)
- Oh yeah, I'm so with you on that score Sean - Sordidman 09:21:52 02/16/07 (0)
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