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    Recording A Ghost is Born

    in Just A Fan

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    Okay, I probably have more recording experience then most people on this message board so let me clear things up. First of all, tape isn't the be all and end all of "analog warmth"... far from it. Compressors, EQs, the board, and especially pre-amps are equally as important.

    Second, yes, tape isn't as common as it was in 1970 but I really doubt a band like Wilco would have problems finding tape.

    Third, I can't say for certain but I imagine what Tweedy meant was, he sat down (either alone or with various band members) and arranged the songs on ProTools... probably sequencing out drums and key parts using MIDI and software plug ins (maybe he had some outboard gear for this process, but I doubt it). You don't even need to play keyboards, you can just draw in the notes you want to be played. This is a process A LOT of arrangers/composers do today, though ProTools isn't the best way to do it, Logic has a much better MIDI sequencer but ProTools is more "user friendly", especially to someone like Jeff, who doesn't have the time to sit down and learn a complicated program.

    Also, to whoever said you can record on tape and dump into ProTools, this is true, but you can also sync a tape machine with something like ProTools (or Logic... or RADAR or even another tape machine!) and use them together, they did this on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, I believe. That leads to my next point, the main advantage of digital recording is NOT the ammount of tracks, like I said, you can easily sync two tape machines together and have 48 tracks (I sincerely doubt that any song on AGIB required 48 tracks). The main reasons it's popular is

    A] it's convenient

    B] it's cheap (tape is expensive)

    C] good signal to noise ratio (i.e. no tape hiss)

    D] and most importantly.... THE UNDO BUTTON!!!!!!!!!

    Lost

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Okay, sorry if this has been brought up but anyone else think it's more then a coincidence that Elsa's (Sayid's lady) boss called her half an hour early, roughly the same amount of time difference the island seems to have from the rest of the world???

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