What Last Standing Knight said .
I recently took some classes in basic live sound, and Intro to Pro Tools . EVERYTHING is what I would consider , " fake " . Everything recorded, everything you ever hear on the radio , every live production larger than a small dive bar . Everything is pitch corrected, everything is time aligned. Every " simple vocal " is multi tracked , an absolute minimum of three layers, frequently up to 12 layers .
There are still recording engineers and mixing engineers who know better . But the producers call the shots, and pay the fees . The only occasional exceptions occur with certain sub genres of Jazz , and Traditional Bluegrass .
During all the classes, I kept having the broken record conversation of
Me - Ahh, did Merle Haggard really do that in the studio in 1963 ?
Answer - Nahh . In 1963, he just stood in front of the mic and sang/ played while the tape was rolling . But if I did that today , I would never get contracted by record companies , no modern groups would hire me , and none of my speculative productions would ever sell . ( Slightly paraphrased )
