Steenamaroo
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It's pretty obvious what he means by "inconsistent".
Let's not jump the gun. I don't see a wiki or OED quote yet....
It's pretty obvious what he means by "inconsistent".
What would worry me would be the acoustics of a church.
Being catholic I've been in some noisy cathedrals.
How do you mean 'inconsistent' ? One person's inconsistency is another person's creative diversity.
If your home studio is a church then it's not a home studio. What would worry me would be the acoustics of a church.
I create quite a lot of performance click tracks for people, and use the originals as guide tracks and then produce a click from the original. Up until the 80s synth and MIDI based music appeared, tempos were all over the place, maybe hovering around 90 for the verse, gradually speeding up to 95 in the chorus ready for a gentle fall back to the verse tempo. Little tiny ebbs and flows that suit the music of the period, and I guess still suit many types of music now. Playing fairly often to click tracks convinces me that rigid tempos are horrible, and a bit of flow livens it up and helps the song progress. Even drummers who are known for their timekeeping still change the absolute tempo, and quite a lot seem to delay beat three in the bar which gives a nice feel.
The recording process is of course each to their own, but I like to work to complete songs if I possibly can, because for me, the results are better.
Our church at Raleigh (Temple of Pentecost) has a glass fronted, sound proof drum room with a nice 6 piece DW kit and 12 mikes. You'd love recording there. I've been tempted.
I don't disagree with most of that. I've long taken the approach that musicians should be able to record with a click and without a click. Funnily enough, my mate Ray, that I mentioned earlier, as a studio drummer and engineer told me he was born to a click and couldn't envisage not using one but we never used one. Mind you, he had never recorded in sections before either and was quite blown away by it. But the stuff we did didn't wander all over the place.Playing fairly often to click tracks convinces me that rigid tempos are horrible, and a bit of flow livens it up and helps the song progress. Even drummers who are known for their timekeeping still change the absolute tempo, and quite a lot seem to delay beat three in the bar which gives a nice feel.