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Prince recording process? after watching the brilliant Studio City documentary by Dave Grohl I was wondering if prince is still recording to tape? or is he a Pro tools clone like everyone else? | |
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You mean that incredible technology that gets snubbed at by pretentious music snobs? Ah, right... Always cry 4 love, never cry 4 pain. |
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. 'The Rainbow Children' was recorded to 2" taPe, then mixed and mastered in ProTools. This method has been pretty common for a while now, and it makes alot of sense, for real. You get the fat warm sound quality from the tape, then the flexibility within ProTools with mixing and mastering.
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I was under the impression that all the records made after TRC are recorded directly to HD (using ProTools, most likely). It seems that he started using analog tape again with the Andy Allo record, or a little bit before that. It's not clear to me if he's using tape for the multitracking process these days, as one option could be just to have the songs "downmixed" to tape after they're pretty much in a finished state with the HD setup (and then after that, recorded back to HD for mastering and whatever additional tinkering he wants to do on them). You'll get quite a lot of analog warmth that way too, although it's not really the same thing as recording everything on tape to begin with. Many artists prefer to do it that way these days (Maxwell and Chromeo come to mind instantly).
[Edited 12/26/13 11:43am] | |
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its cold and unfeeling | |
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kidmelody2012 said:
its cold and unfeeling Once upon a time, but now the technology has far exceeded the frequency range of analog tape. The "cold" and "unfeeling" aspects you hear are the lack of tape imperfections like compression and distortion and tape hiss. It's the illusion that black and white film is "classier" than color. It's a caricature of reality whereas digital technology is closer to reality. It doesn't do fantasy as easily. | |
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I wouldn't say Emancipation sounds that much "warmer" than 3121 does. So many other factors contribute to the overall result. | |
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so prince meeds new engineer or Rick Rubin? | |
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