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TimOBrien
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Does your car mechanic only have one wrench and one screwdriver?
Does your car mechanic only have one wrench and one screwdriver?
Jay C
New member
that's really nice to look at. "I think it moved"
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Wayne PA
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I just read an ebook by David Compos "Music Production 101". He basically concludes that the effects and virtual instruments are superior to external effects in quality and functionality so it looks like either way can work for producing a pro master. In my situation I thing an all-virtual setup will be the best way to start.
miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
I dare him to come to HR and say that....
I'm assuming you mean David Compos the composer and not the attorney from Guatamala....
He's working ITB for the most part doing sound design and using lots of synth-based stuff...so I can see why he would feel that way.
I wouldn't go so far as to say effects and virtual instruments are "superior" in quality and functionality, they just maybe work better in a specific kind of recording situation.
I mean....what instruments is he talking about anyway? If he's talking about sampled stuff, well then all of it came from real instruments to begin with...if he's talking about synthesized sounds, I think he's out on a limb to say they are all superior to the real thing.
stumpypete
New member
Virtual instruments and plug-ins are great.... but they don't heat my studio in the dead of winter like a few outboard tube devices do! 
witzendoz
Senior Member
What a dick! Which is why everything sounds the same these days.
The best things about outboard gear is that it's not perfect and it does have its own sound. Soon everyone will forget how to use real gear and mic up real instruments and how play the instruments and when we get the robot singers to sing for the record companies they won't need singers either.
Fu#K me.
Alan,
grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
This much is true. But "producing a pro master" doesn't give any guide as to quality. Whenever I see people use that phrase "pro", I so often perceive that they are using that term as a catch all, meaning that there is only one grade of "pro" product.
This is not now or ever was true. There has always been a sliding scale because the fact is, some people do things better than others. Some people sing better, play instruments better, track better, mix better and master better. Digital technology has, at least for me, demonstrated that you can have the most uncoloured, level playing field in all the universe, yet some things will still be more appealing than others. Because you cannot take away the human element. Why are George Martin or Phil Ramone or Butch Vig revered and renowned producers but Pete St John and Fritz Fryer aren't ?
That's his conclusion. But it really depends on the instrument or effects {and who made either}. I use alot of VSTis as well as real instruments. VSTis were for me a Godsend but if I had friends that played all the instruments I use virtually, I'd never use them. That's my conclusion.