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Originally Posted by randomaire
Really though no need to fight about it.
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I don't think anyone's fighting about it. Just very heatedly discussing.
To sum up I do think that gear plays a very important roll in getting "that" sound. Sure the engineer can make great equipment sound awful or bad equipment sound better. But the gear is what it is. To use a little more relavent example, the greatest guitarist can only make a $55 strat through a $50 practice sound but so good. Sure their music and choice of notes will be great (ie, the "song"), but it won't have that heart stopping tone of a high quality guitar and tube amp.
IMO, recording equipment is really no different. The selection mic, preamp selection, etc. will all make a difference in the final sound. Even most of the high quality equipment won't sound great on all sources.
Having done mixes on both types of equipment I know the gear I have now will only take me so far. There's a reason the recording gurus spend millions on their studio, if there wasn't then they would spend the money else where. Surely these guys are the best of the best so if anyone could do it with a $200 mic and Mackie preamps, it would be these guys.... But that probably wouldn't be as impressive to their clients.
I hope Brandon doesn't mind me quoting him, but when I went looking for his mp3's I saw this on his front page.... The whole thing can be found
here. I just thought this part was interesting as it seems we do actually agree on the whole gear thing.... Unless he wasn't talking about the gear, which he can clarify if I misunderstood.
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I basically realized when I was down in Nashville at the Michael Wagener Workshop that I was totally half assing the recording thing. After working for 9 days in a professional facility, where I was capable of getting great sounds, it was very very frustrating coming back to my place. I couldn't get the same sounds. Things just weren't coming together. Basically, I found working in a professional studio environment much more effective than working in my place."
The gear, the room acoustics, it all comes together and plays a major roll in the "potential" sound you can get and it takes a great engineer to reach that full potential.
-tkr