07-23-2012, 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by mc1
...tell me about the guy who could get a reasonably good single take and leave it at that... i still wonder if that has any merit.  |
Hi mc1...
Sure that would be ideal. My experience is the better players are more prone to want another take just to see if anything can be perfected, and are far more critical about their work than I'd be.
I really have done very few recording sessions where we nailed it on the first take and didn't do at least a backup track...at the request of the artist. And the longer the track (in minutes and seconds) the less chance that single-take-and-we're-done is actually going to happen.
I have recorded a handful of players who can do simple straight forward recordings in only two or three takes. And these are people who perform a lot, and are comfortable in front of people or in front of recording gear.
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