This thread was not started to be part of the recent negative postings by a few members.

But I wanted to under score the importance of having a good recording whether it be for an arranger demo or workstation or what ever.


You see, one of the purposes for going through the recording process is to make allowances for the different environments and musical equipment (i.e. speakers, music player’s soundcards …) that people would be hearing the music through.
In a recording. You want to make sure that it can do justice to the music in different settings.

I did not want to single out any one person or instance but I have to do this for an example. There was a post a few days ago where some persons, when listening to an MP3 version of a recording thought the drums were not powerful enough. The poster and another person with whom he gave the actual wave file to thought the drums were the right level. So it appeared the post recording process mattered here.

What I am trying to say is that just a one take no processing no nothing recording probably would not capture every thing or most things that the poster would like the listeners to hear. This would cause the listeners to make comments about the poster’s rendition that the poster would not agree with. This could be because the poster and the listener could be hearing 2 different things. This in tern could cause tension between the poster and some of the listeners. May be this could be one of the causes of all this bickering between members?


To use an analogy, you probably would not use the same mixer settings on your arranger/mixer/speaker to play in a small room that fits 50-60 persons and a big auditorium that sits between 500-600 people and has a high roof.