Originally Posted By: KGU 2
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One experienced video on Quantizing, or tempo mapping-- said "Time is money" today in studios, they don't have time waiting for musicians to get it right.

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The answer to that is to practice, prepare, and get it right BEFORE you get into the studio.

Back in the tape days, and especially before multi-tracks, musicians and singers practiced until they knew their parts, then rehearsed with the band and ironed out the song before recording.

Once in the studio, they simply played the song from start to finish, usually getting it down in one or two takes.

When we had a pro studio in town and I was a first call saxophonist, I got a lot of work because they called me a "one take Jake". I spent some of my time, off the clock, practicing what I was going to record.

In all the band recordings I did 'back in the day' we rehearsed until it was right and never did more than two takes.

Today in my personal MIDI studio, where recording time isn't more expensive than practice time, I still practice until comfortable with the part before recording.

I find when I'm comfortable enough so I don't have to think about what I'm playing, but instead just let it flow, the timing and phrasing come out many times better.

I think the three worst enemies of music are quantizing, auto-tune, and needless compression. Quantizing takes the human breathing out of it, auto-tune takes the vocal expression out of it, and compression takes the dynamics out of it.

IMO there is a lot more to music than dots on the page and/or notes in a grid.

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