I know the conversation has moved on a bit, but I'd like to respond to this patent nonsense. First off, technology has moved on, and a lot of people are doing recording with everything ITB, not micing up amps and drum kits. There are plugins that simulate amps, pedal boards as well as external solutions like the Kemper profiling amp my band's guitarists use. Our band consists of:tony tony chopper wrote:I wrote that, contrary to making digital music from scratch, which is now doable by anyone anywhere, recording is still reserved to the elite who has the money, hardware & knowledge.
Are you saying that it's not true, that you CAN get proper recordings in the middle of a city with no money & technical knowledge? You'll have to explain that to the many who are making -audio- tutorial videos with the worst possible sound.
What can you record inexpensively? An electric guitar, and..?
Even just to PERFORM/train, you need to own a dedicated place with little neighborhood. There is no way any band would be able to train anywhere in the place I live in, and that excludes a lot of people in the world.
1 e-drum kit
3x guitars through various pedal boards and outboard sims
1x bass DI
1x keyboard
3x Vocals
All of those are plugged straight into a mixing desk and are easily recorded in a tiny room in the middle of the city using headphones to monitor. The only thing that isn't easy to record are the vocals, because they obviously pick up a lot of the room. Even so, it's something you can work around and not the end of the world.
We do a lot of live recording with everyone playing together, then might do several takes of a single part of the song and have various instruments re-record a certain part, add extra guitar tracks/backing vocals etc. We don't have time to faff around with Edison, we want to record in situ, choose the takes we like most on the fly while everyone is there and then record the next thing. Sure, once we're done, someone has to sit through the takes on their own and put everything together, but you don't want to be doing that while the rest of the band twiddles their thumbs. It's a massve productivity and creativity killer.
Dismissing the idea of home recording because of a few poorly recorded YT vids smacks of a weird sort of elitism, as if people who are recording their bands on their own are really only using "toys".