On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Robert Hodge wrote:
VERY TRUE !! Hence the expression " We Can Fix It In Post ".
Just because the tool is available to " Fix it" , why should performance suffer?
One complete and uninteruppted perfect take beats many retakes hands down !
My 2 Bits.
I have often wondered if there is not something lost in the editing process. I have worked on releases (won't mention names) where a ten minute movement could have as many as 15 edit or more edits. Some musicians I have worked with have an almost unearthly ability to pick out a measure here and a measure there and then put together an extremely complex puzzle. In such instances, while I am amazed at the continuity they can maintain, I wonder if such a practice actually destroys some form of continuity in the communication, a continuity that is not obvious on first listening.
I am also reminded of doing side joins on 78s where conductors had to stop mid movement...some times one take will work better with another, but yet, and maybe it is just me and knowing how things were done, but a broadcast performance, recorded on 16 inch lacquers, seems to be more convincing...not just the spontaneity of it, but somehow it seems to be a question of continuity...even when one considers how masterful those musicians were at keeping tempi right from one side to the next. For myself, one those rare occasions I had the opportunity to conduct...stopping (say in rehearsal) is a bit like being interrupted when you are about to say something in an argument. The part after the interruption never comes out exactly the say as it would if you had been allowed to continue your thought without the interruption.
Since many of you have done plenty of editing...I wonder what your thoughts might be.
Karl