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Originally Posted by Macar
PS- classical musicians DO get help from studio magic as well you know...
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though, honestly, you have to admit, considerably LESS so than pop musicians.
Toss a string quartet on a stage and they SHOULD sound the same as they do on their latest CD (unless the accoustics of the hall are incredibly dreadful).
Classical musicians use "studio" help to make the accoustics of the recording better, or to correct little performance imperfections here and there, since we expect a CD of classical music to be technically perfect.
But if a classical musician needed the amount of tweaking and "behind-the-scenes magic" that too many pop musicians require, they would never get hired... EVER.
Some pop bands don't even SOUND like themselves unless their recording has been processed to death in a studio environment by teh best producers and techs in the business.
I can give you one shocking example: When the movie
Fame cam out, the theme song was a HUGE hit. Irene Cara sang the song in the the film, recorded in studio, obviously.
When the song was nominated for an Oscar that year, she went on stage at the ceremony to sing it... and it was a monumental disaster! Without the back-up of all those studio techs and over-production, it sounded like pure crap.