In a previous post I rehearsed some arguments about why direct to stereo recording may be a desirable recording method. There are two main reasons for this, the first is that it gives a chance to capture a live performance giving the listener all the subtlety of musicians making music together, the second is that our hearing skills are sensitive […]
Category Archives: Music Production
Is Two-Track Recording The Best Method? Not Always But Sometimes
18 September, 2009 – 2:28 pm
I’ve got myself embroiled in a discussion in the LinkedIn Music Producers group about whether Pro Tools (and digital multitrack recording in general) is a retrograde step in terms of record production. The seed of the discussion is a quote from Joe Boyd in the September issue of Mix magazine,
You could say that 2-track recording is the purest […]
The Two Hemispheres of Music Production and The Struggle to Keep Them Separate
13 February, 2009 – 5:19 pm
Modern music production software is brilliant stuff. It gives us the capability to do so much that was previously only possible in expensive studios and with the help of several musicians. There is even the potential to sync to picture and even some (pre-)mastering capability. In the words of Harold Macmillan, “[we have] never had […]
