Q&A: What does it mean to record live music?
Question by Emergia: What does it mean to record live music?
I read an article about a musician who was saying that for some of the tracks they went into an old building and recorded the music live. How can recorded music NOT be live? If someone’s playing the instrument, it’s live, right?
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Answer by aladdinwa
Not recorded in a studio. Usually with an audience.
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It means that the band was recorded all playing together at the same time, rather than using overdubs. For an explanation of overdubbing, click here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdubbing
I think when someone plays live, they don’t have to keep doing it all over again so that it’s the perfect studio voice.
It seems like that the old musician did play the songs, but they didn’t necessarily have to make any changes to the songs so it’ll sound perfect.
I have a live CD of Korn’s “MTV Unplugged” and Evanescence’s “Anywhere But Home.” These are all live songs that were done during a concert, where they couldn’t have altered the songs so that it’ll sound like what they want it to sound like.
And then there are people, like Gnarls Barkley, who would just sing the whole CD and not do anything to the CD whatsoever.