Re: VINNIE - The thread about Colaiuta
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:01 am
Things have become practical and cheap. That's why we chose what we do.
I remember having all my stuff on CD, then getting some favourites on vinyl and certainly feeling different when listening to it.
How we react to analog vs. digital distorion is a real thing.
There have been attempts to do someting about todays formats like DVD audio or Pono.
Everything is going in the direction of being able to do things ourselves. I know I would have been doing so. It's all in how we use stuff.
Being a session musician is long over. It's main our old heroes grasping on to the last little pieces of it. Not much available for new guys and gals, mainly reproducing stuff that's already been done for a certain type of TV show I know that I'm personally quite tired of.
Things will have to change, though.
For about 2 decades now bars and clubs have mainly been hiring 1 or 2 man bands playing along to midi files. People are tired of that, so it pretty much went away. The issue now is budget to hire those inbetween things that are not the big stars nor locals playing almost for free.
Engineers. The goods ones, the ones worth hiring are too expensive. The small studio people I've worked with aren't worth it. They know too little about sound, too little about music. Give me a room and the basic gear and I'll do a much better job simply because I have ears and I care.
Had I done my dream project I'd hire someone for sure, but I'd be well prepared and get it done in 2-3 days.
I remember having all my stuff on CD, then getting some favourites on vinyl and certainly feeling different when listening to it.
How we react to analog vs. digital distorion is a real thing.
There have been attempts to do someting about todays formats like DVD audio or Pono.
Everything is going in the direction of being able to do things ourselves. I know I would have been doing so. It's all in how we use stuff.
Being a session musician is long over. It's main our old heroes grasping on to the last little pieces of it. Not much available for new guys and gals, mainly reproducing stuff that's already been done for a certain type of TV show I know that I'm personally quite tired of.
Things will have to change, though.
For about 2 decades now bars and clubs have mainly been hiring 1 or 2 man bands playing along to midi files. People are tired of that, so it pretty much went away. The issue now is budget to hire those inbetween things that are not the big stars nor locals playing almost for free.
Engineers. The goods ones, the ones worth hiring are too expensive. The small studio people I've worked with aren't worth it. They know too little about sound, too little about music. Give me a room and the basic gear and I'll do a much better job simply because I have ears and I care.
Had I done my dream project I'd hire someone for sure, but I'd be well prepared and get it done in 2-3 days.