Ed,
Oh, brave warrior, I kneel at your feet! No edits
is certainly the hard way to go!
On my CD, I tried to get as natural a sound as
possible - fairly close, dry and with few edits.
There are a fair number of tracks on there that are
done in one uninterrupted take. (Strange thing: on
one of the tracks that I know has absolutely no edits
in it, there's what sounds to me like the most obvious
digital piecing together. Must be some odd acoustical
or performance anomaly. Still, I think the quality of
performance was otherwise good and so I let it stand.)
I must say, its a real test of self-trust not to
remove some noises or a couple of notes flubbed or
bent a little out of tune if you feel that the natural
performance overrules this. I know putting a lot of
reverb or placing the mics farther away could have
covered up some mistakes, too. Are people going to
think I don't know what I'm doing or that I'm a bad
player? (Both might be true!) I would of course not
like that much, but ultimately, I hope that aspect
becomes irrelevant and people focus on the music.
Chris
--- Edward Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, my first CD had no editing at all, and I
> really enjoyed the
> honest, freshness in accepting whole entire takes
> without "fixing" buzzes,
> wrong notes, etc.
>
> ed
>
>
>
> At 09:47 AM 7/4/2007 +0200, LGS-Europe wrote:
> >As to the editing. I think there's too much editing
> on cds these days. It
> >kills the soul of the music. Sanitary work,
> Toyohiko calls it. I think my
> >Terzi recording has more edits than all my cds
> before. So it sounds perfect,
> >more perfect than we'll ever be able to play it
> live. So, is that still me
> >on the cd? I really believe one-track recording has
> more life in it, but not
> >many players, or producers, seem brave enough to
> release cds with small
> >mistakes, buzzes, or notes out of tune. Did you
> ever hear a concert without
> >mistakes, and did you like it?
> >
> >David
>
>
>
> Edward Martin
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