Eq and compression will sometimes be printed, but not usually if the effects are being added in a computer as they can be adjusted later for potentially better results.Īnother way of thinking about it (though only a mediocre comparison) would be an electric guitar player tracking their part dry without any amp sound and then adding the amp afterward. Things like reverb and delays on sends / aux tracks are pretty normal for all types of vocal performance, but are not usually printed live. Rappers with autotune for example may want to hear how the autotune is interacting with their performance in order to perform in to that effect more musically. When you're tracking it's helpful to have some or most of the effects present that will be making up the 'tone' of your recording in order to make sure you have the type of performance you're looking for. Hope you have a good one, thanks for the discussion! Maybe that’s not important to you and you wanna stick with your guns and that’s rad and I’m sure many people respect that decision. Definitely different strokes, but to me if you’re working for an artist (which we are in a service industry) it’s crucial to give them options because if you don’t someone else will, and for their next project I bet a lot of them will go with the person with the options than the same exact thing as last time. I’ve had this discussion with the studio owner where I work and he’s of the same mind as you so maybe you’re an older head who came from analog times where what went to tape was it, but in a digital world there’s so much more potential than just what gets tracked in. It’s more important to me that they get the right product at the end that they want than me being all “this is what you’re gonna get because I’m xyz engineer who works with xyz gear and that’s what you pay for” - to me you’re limiting the potential that tracking into a DAW gives you in the mixing stage, and if there’s going to be someone else mixing the record you’re shooting them in the foot for the vocal sound. Again at the very least compression and EQ in are great, but reverb delay and other effects in parallel make much more sense on a future control standpoint. Sure I’d love to rub my own ego and say everything I do from the start is going to be golden for every client but sometimes artists change their earlier decision about the song, or arrangement, or they want a different reverb sound, or to cut a delay out. I mean, I’m not new to engineering whatsoever, not unsure about my own choices, it’s less about committing from the start and going with it for your own choice than it’s about having a client who may change their mind.
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