
Jordon
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skoora":3v5wzyry said:Jordon":3v5wzyry said:Well, on a lot of modern hard rock and metal records, the guitar is tracked 1 or 2 bars at a time. Guitars are tuned to the fretted chord, played, then tuned to the next fretted chord. It can get insane. A lot of times, a DI signal is taken with the amp tracks so the guitars can be edited to the kick and snare, or to the grid. Most of it comes down to taste, though. I do a bit of all of that in my productions, but I don't go to the point of it sounding un-natural.
For example: Great drummer, phenomenal singer, good guitarists =
The drums were edited, and the kick was sample-replaced, the snare was stacked with a sample for reinforcement. The bass was time-aligned with the kick drum and pitch-corrected via Melodyne. Due to the nature of the song, the guitars in the main riff and bridge were time-aligned like the bass. Maybe 10% of the lead vocal was pitch corrected, about 80% of the backing vocals were hard-corrected. All auxilliary vocals were time-aligned to the lead. Sorry, it's just a rough mix I started before I went on vaca this winter.
I'm glad all my studio/engineering days were well before digital was the norm. It makes you wonder how could any decent rock/metal recordings have been accomplished before all this digital necessity for editing![]()
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That's the reason record took a year and a half and a million dollars to make. You didn't have 6 months to track vocals to make sure every single note is perfect. There also wasn't the industry demand there is now for "unique-but-the-same" sounding albums.
Besides, don't diminish that bad I just posted. They're fantastic live, as are most of the bands I work with. I have studio-live prepro sessions that could be mixed and pressed and sound incredible.
Either way, it's just the way the industry is now, at least for hard rock and metal. Pop has been that way for a couple decades now. I see mainstream country going more and more in that overproduced direction, but fuckit...It's country

