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Originally Posted by GlendaleViper  I have to say, for me this is only an issue with overproduced records... sadly, most modern albums (any given genre) are overproduced. There is a painfully distinct lack of musicality, particularly with drum tracks and "cleaned up" guitar/bass work (and don't get me started on vocals) in most modern studio albums where the norm is to cut-and-paste, pitch shift, compress, limit and otherwise completely sterilize the performance. This is exacerbated if you get out to see live music on a regular basis.
I know this is audiophile blasphemy, but I'll take a poorly recorded live-studio performance over a pristine-but-overproduced hack job any day of the week.
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it's one of the hardest thing to do working in a studio, know where to draw the line between making a great product and producing it to death. Of course it always helps to have better artists.
Part of the problem is that the artists/producers themselves don't really hear the emotion of a raw performance, they just hear the mistakes. Mick Jagger hates Exile On Main Street partly because all he hears are all the mistakes, while its probably their most "real, raw" record. I've been in a studio before where I came in and heard two different takes, one which obviously had more emotional punch, and the other that was cleaner. The people involved all preferred the cleaner version since they were so brutally aware of all the mistakes of the more emotional cut, they would literally wince at every mistake. But I had no doubt that the more emotional cut was the better one. Luckily it ended up going on the record and became a semi-minor hit, where I am sure the other version would have gotten them totally written off.
