[Dixielandjazz] Live vs. Studio recordings.

[Jim Kashishian]

Why does it have to be "live vs studio"?  Why can't there just be good
studio recordings or bad ones, and good or bad live recordings?

Quote SB:
>And if they (musicians) are not being recorded, they will create even more,
because no one is keeping score.

Ok, so a musician gets all choked up in the recording studio 'cause he knows
it's all going down, but the same musician on a stage doesn't sweat the fact
that there are engineers out there recording him live?  Doesn't make sense.

I can tell you that the same guy/gal that sweats the tape rolling in the
studio will sweat the tape rolling out there with the live audience.  

Quote SB:
>In studio, I think most of them are apt to play it safe because they want
to avoid the errors. So they play their most comfortable patterns. 

Again, the same effect is there during the live recording...he knows he's
being recorded! 
Ok, so the audience might excite your frightened musician a bit, but it's
not going to clear his mind that "Ohmygod, this is being recorded!"

Quote SB:
>I will never forget discussing live vs. studio with Kenny Davern......

Oops!  Name dropping!  :>  Why not listen to those of us that are having
this conversation in the present...people who are actually involved in the
recording process?  Why quote some discussion from (probably) ages ago?

Quote SB:
>Same goes for "patched" records where different intros, or perhaps
different parts of two different performances are patched together. If I
learn about it, I feel cheated. Basically because IMO records are like
history. They are specific events that occurred at specific times. If
altered, the history is faked and/or the record a fraud.

You're placing way too much importance on the majority of recordings.  And,
why would you "learn about it" if the whole purpose of good post prod is to
do it so it won't be heard.

I daresay many of your cherished recordings are frauds under such strict
rules, as even many older recordings will have been spliced (tape cutting &
splicing in parts), not to mention ambience changes, etc.  The general
public just doesn't know about it.

What's the big deal anyway?  

Jim