multi track recording ie - SONAR, PRO TOOLS

[Chingas]

Originally Posted by BC-Axeman

And it will always sound programmed.
Live drummers can put "feel" into every little motion. Try keeping a jazzy, off-beat ride cymbal riff going by programming it in. Of course you can sample but that was played live originally.
I used to record on an 8 track reel to reel a long time ago. I had a lot of fun doing that. Never made any money. I have been watching CL and ebay for similar equipment, just to lay down some tracks of stuff I created in the past twenty years. I don't like the sound of most modern recordings. CD quality is far undersampled.
What kind of equipment do you need to get high quality digital? It would have to be a lot better than CDs (44.1 kHz, 16 bit).

I hear what your saying and I agree, to an extent. The samples today are pretty badass, all recorded by professional drummers usually using at least 16 different variations of hit strength.

Programming is so realistic now that you can add "feel". You can push or lag any hit. You can change the placement of where the stick hits the head, middle, side, rim, velocity of hit. You can even add imperfections to make it less "robotic".

Believe me, I prefer a real drummer over programming. But if you're good enough programmer, and I'm not yet, I think you would be hard pressed to tell the difference in an average rock song.

As for quality. CD quality blows but your at the helm of the playback device. I usually track at 24/192 but have scaled down to fit the projects overall outcome. If it's just going on myspace or YouTube then 24/96 or 24/44 is fine. That gets converted to 16/44 at the end of the day and then gets compressed the hell out of to an mp3 for clients.


It's a shame more people don't hear the benefits of s quality recording. A majority of the people are deaf to the true sounds that go into a recording and only hear the compressed shitty quality thru crappy earbuds. Not many people left that truly "listen" to music. It's really a shame.