Why most recordings sound like crap....

[tbla]

you can't record a rock band like this......it would sound like loud music in a rehearsal room.....and its impossible to edit anything....

[nobody special]

Originally posted by tbla
you can't record a rock band like this......it would sound like loud music in a rehearsal room.....and its impossible to edit anything....

If everyone lived by what someone said can't be done and never tested the limits, there would never be anything new and great.

I wasn't talking about recording a whole band at once anyway. Multitracking could (should) be used, but why not combine more traditional ways of recording individual instruments with the multitracking process?
It's really easy to just say it wouldn't work, but until you really try it, don't put my ideas in your close-minded box of impossibilities.
Who, may I ask, are you anyway to shoot down anything so quickly? What is your exprerience in recording?It's this mentality that has brought us the stale overproduced garbage that they call mainstream music for the last 5-10 years!

[phase_accurate]

It's this mentality that has brought us the stale overproduced garbage that they call mainstream music for the last 5-10 years!

As I mentioned before: It is not only the recording techniques themselves that are responsible for the crappy sound, the problems start at the true source of the music: composers, musicians ..... IMHO.

It has never been a disadvantage though to think about improvements on the technical side.

Regards

Charles

[nobody special]

As I mentioned before: It is not only the recording techniques themselves that are responsible for the crappy sound, the problems start at the true source of the music: composers, musicians ..... IMHO.

I couldn't agree more...
unfortunately for us, until the public demands good music, there will continue to be a shortage of good musicians and composers.

[ljordan]

fdegrove:

Some of my favorite labels:

Fone http://www.fone.it/inizio.asp?lang=en
a standout, I had one only 87-F-04-CD1 Four Seasons.

***btw I can not find a U S source.***

I think this guy takes it to the limit of CD sound.


Dorian

AliaVox Lots of Jordi Savall

Astree

Harmonia Mundi



Lewis

[fdegrove]

Hi,

Oh, yes. Fone is very good.
I used to buy them directly from the Belgian importer.

Astree is great for antique instrumental music, very well recorded.

You may like Proprius too.

Harmonia Mundi France was great: La foglia d'Espagna is still one of my favourite demo records.
The recordings made by the same sound engineer (I forget his name) are always well captured.

I am sure there are a host of other labels out there that deserve mention such as some smaller British labels, Hyperion and the famous Lyra.

Cheers,

[lohk]

Alberto Paulin

[fdegrove]

Hi,

Alberto Paulin, indeed.

Ich bedanke mich,

[Jocko Homo]

If the "artists" that perform the stuff that we listen to don't care, or know, if it sounds like crap, then how can we expect something better???

Jocko

[mrfeedback]

I went to my GF's staff do recently, and afterwoods we all went to a nightclub where a young band was playing.
I must say that the live sound was CRAP, and drove me out the room quicksmart.
The youngsters liked it and stayed.
This is the stuff that youngsters are listening to, and then going home and listening to it on crappy shelf systems, and the cycle repeats.
Also most musos that I know do not have good replay systems.

Eric.