20 Oct
2016
20 Oct
'16
7:52 p.m.
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 10:26:53 -0700 (PDT)
Len Ovens <len(a)ovenwerks.net> wrote:
It was not that long ago that all inputs were analog
(even synth).
Now, it is unusual to record an anolog synth, but people still do.
There are people who have made things that are all synth and the
analog part of things is not seen till after production for any part
of them... yet there are still many recording that have only mic
inputs (or other anaolg pickup). There have been for years (from
before computers were consumer affordable) beat boxes and now the
computer can generate the whole rythum section. This technology has
even been used on "hit" (whatever that is) records. (I can think of
at least two "top 10" songs without thinking at all)
Yes, but this has nothing to do for instance, in the use of compressors
since just about radio broadcasting started. And then the use of
compressors in order to prevent cutting through the lathe when making
LPs.
The big picture in plugin use is not big name or
profesional studio
use but Johnny Two Fingers in his bedroom dreaming of being a rock
star before he goes to college to learn how to cook... or wire
houses... or litigate software users and venders over patents or
something. Just the same as the big use for automatic accompaniment
is Grandma playing along with the oldies in her appartment.
There is a market for 'plugins' (general sense - like saying the
'internet' as in : "I read that on the in-ter-net") as with anything
else. But there is also basic 'plugin' use in all main recordings that
goes to the market.
At this point one can object, nah, I can record things without adding
any reverb or anything else, not even EQ and certainly not compression.
Sure. But what would be the point in doing so ?
I guess we could have a contest consisting of a plugin-free song. If
we want to stretch the concept it would have to be recorded in a
complete acoustically dead room because after all, exploiting the room
acoustics would be akin to add ER or reverb. Which would be forbidden
by concept. And absolutely no use of Ardour-Mixbus !
This is to say that 'plugins' are used in recordings and this has
at its root nothing to do with marketing and their target, the
aspirations of customers.