I am not the biggest fan of
Lord-Alge's work, but he is great at putting a vocal in your face. It
helps boost the impact of the emotion when the vocal is well
preformed. When you have a great singer(attitude-wise), like a Mick
Jagger, it is even better to put the vocal on the listeners lap. That
is the kind of thing he does.

Mick jagger is a funny person to mention since, a lot of his great vocals are
mixed the opposite of "in your lap".


People
on this group(not all) have criticized pitch so much, they forgot
about emotion. That is why a great performance is forced to be on the
center of the note now to be passable. That is B.S. That is the
newsgroup/world we live in.

I'm not sure engineers are solely to blame for auto-tune. A&R guys, radio
people, producers and these days THE BAND THEMSELVES are often to blame as
well.

In regards to the issue of "The band could of made the record on a mackie" and
that sort of thing, Yes, it;s the music not the gear and it's the engineer not
the gear. But if you think "Clap hands here comes charlie" would *sound* the
same over- compressed to hell, of course it wouldn't. All this sonic mess has
an effect on the listeners. No dynamics tire people out. Cut up performances
lack soul. A lot of bands these days are demanding all these things that are
being criticized, so the blame goes all around.

There will always be good music, but the questions raised about whether
anyone's helping it get it to the people in a way that represents the band are
worth asking. I know some people that are doing the right thing too.


P h i l i p

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