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Originally Posted by ThePianoMan121
That's not what I was referring to. Artists might not be able to nail each song in one take, and might combine a few takes to get the part "perfect," but if they're at all decent, they can actually play the parts they write well. Otherwise seeing them live would be a miserable experience.
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Can you really consider a live concert and a studio recording on a pop band/artist? Apart from the very few who can do it (Radiohead, dEUS, Moby, from what I've seen), the quality varies greatly! It's like they're making "cover" songs of their own songs, to play live!
Either way, what we call production, post production and mastering is not something that really happens (mostly that is) in live concerts.
Of course classic artists also have different takes, etc, but the phenomenon is hugely lessen that on the pop music! Not that I consider it a problem, but just that classical music is aimed at a live setting (otherwise called "concert hall music" for that very reason) and pop music is aimed at a studio, where everything is possible.
Either way, a classical record, will aim to simulate the experience of listening to the artist on a live environement: the concert hall, or a studio with various reverbs attached (very carefully though). The pop record is aimed for listening at your mp3 player, or speakers, or studio monitors, etc. Not to simulate anything. Going to a pop concert you get so many different elements, not to be found in the record, that it is completely different. While in classical music, everyone STFU so that they can listen to an almost CD quality performance and go home happy!
I am VERY much intrigued by the above differences, because I'm working on something, thus the comments.