Creative Recording with Tape Op - What Makes a Great Recording?
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2024
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Director of Photography - Christopher Bell
Editor - Duncan Sharp
Written by Larry Crane and Geoff Stanfield
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Long-time subscriber, Larry Crane's a legend for offering it for free. I enjoy the audio-visual stuff Tape Op's putting up, hope you do more.
Well, it's almost too obvious to mention, but there are countless Elliott Smith recordings that aren't sonic masterpieces that are also incredibly moving recordings. Especially on From a Basement on a Hill, things like "The Last Hour" with its bent steel tape reel scraping in the background, adding to the middle of the night intimacy of that fragile vocal. A "better" recording would be SO much less powerful.
In the Wilco documentary, Jay Bennett says if you generally like a song you're going to fall in love with the little things that are wrong with it
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So cool to hear your voice!
I like that Larry is more of a philosopher than an audio engineer answering this question.
Just read Tape Op and all the question will be answered. Thanks Larry, et. al!!
LC is the g.o.a.t.!!!
Love the magazine and this series is starting off to be super dope. Keep it up fellas.
Guided By Voices/Robert Pollard is the best evidence that great recordings are subjective. 99% of people out there would consider a lot of the classic lo-fi mid-90’s GBV recordings to be “bad”. For me and solid minority of others, they are perfect records. Sure, much of that is that the songs and performances are amazing. But I also just love that 4 track cassette sound. Not to mention that the sound matches perfectly with the vibe of the moments those records were made.
Thanks for this new series. Love it.
This reminds me of a Bruce Lee lesson I saw footage of once, or maybe it was a Karate film, but anyways, the point is, he says “emotional content” is the sign of proper technique, and that seems true of recording, too.
The crux.
Larry Crane is brilliant, but this is a little too zoomed-out and vague to spend five minutes and 55 seconds on. In reality, Crane is doing very skilled engineering all day long. When you listen to Daniel Johnston tapes (I can't believe we're talking about him on youtube - total gentrification is complete) -- you're hearing the brilliance of the artist in *spite* of an objectively terrible recording. It's the fact that you can hear him at all through that awful tape recording is part of what makes him sound like a genius. If he'd got a deal with sub-pop in '88 and was recorded by Steve Albini, everybody would have seen him as a tiresome put-on. In the words of a great boxer - "I really wanted to BE somebody. I guess I should have been more specific."
I’ll do you one more. I saw the album art for Hi how are you blown up huge and wallpapered into the rest of the decor at an airport Schlotzky’s deli in Albuquerque last week… Unreal.
@@schtickkicker Oh man. I guess inevitably it will end up in an iPhone commercial.