Fuzz tone covers a multitude of sins.
Gary
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Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 2:45 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: The End of the Golden Age
Ned,
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [LUTE] Re: The End of the Golden Age
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009, 10:50 AM
"The rockers. .
.view an overly-produced-sounding-recording as some
kind of inauthentic representation of the
genre. . ."
Unless a rock recording is from a live
performance, this seems to me an
ingenuous view. Even on a
performance stage, rock musicians are
totally reliant on electronic processing
for their sound; in a studio
the processing is even far greater.
If it doesn't sound "slick" to the
consumer, it's because the engineers have
taken great care to make sure
it doesn't. Just my view.
Quite right. But that's why I was careful to write
"overly-produced-_sounding_" rather than just "overly-produced." Many
rock/pop artists sound absolutely wretched without editing and a bunch of
studio bells and whistles. There's lots of overdubbing, too. None the
less, some sort of unpolished character is expected.
Meanwhile, big names in our field try to get everything to sound even.
The result is no less artificial than a rock/pop recording, but it ends up
being far blander. Its a professional standard that never existed in
early music and is unfortunately detrimental to the art. Hmmm, maybe we
should try to remember who sells more and think twice before editing out
every last fret buzz.
Chris
Ned
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