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Author: rayro on October 12 2006

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--> I find imperfections in music make it that much more endearing... These days, mass-market appeal dictates getting rid of all production errors and anything that doesn't go by the script - all in favor of maximizing the perfection. For me, music's humanity lies in the mistakes, subtle or not. So keep that in mind when you are deciding whether to pitch correct, mute out any unintended ambience, or quantize your next project.

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edited: Oct 12 2006 + soundhdack

I was just saying on another post how I loved the shitty sound of my 4-track. When I was making all those tapes way back in the mid-80s I was trying my hardest to make "clean" recordings. Of course, you cannot make a "clean" recording on a 4-track if you bounce a lot of tracks. Long story short - all that distortion and fucked up sound of cymbals and high hats eventually became something that people WANTED to hear. I grew to love the sound and strangely when I passed out those tapes, way back in the day, people would always wonder what I was using for processing when all I was doing was bouncing tracks and obliterating the headroom of cassette tape. Discovery of imperfection that's perfect is more than a hobby for me. I live for it because discovery always comes with fresh perspective.

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10/12/06 + Dizzygotheca

i love Coco Rosie and Casiotone for the painfully alone for these very reasons..

lots of it is recorded warts and all..

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10/12/06 + Ochre

Yeah, I'd say there are not enough accidents in my tunes, so I've started playing guitar (which I'm not very good at, despite playing it for about 10 years now) in my tracks, and taking the first complete take, rather than re-recording until it's perfect.

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10/12/06 + fakeBlooper

most of my best musical moments are indetermined intention.

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10/12/06 + Roshi

There's always the Brian Eno quote - "Honor thy mistake as a hidden intention".

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10/12/06 + RogerRoger

Depends on how many mistakes you make. If your playing is like mine, and is so horrid that you can't even get your musical phrase right until you play it six times, it still might be a good idea to edit it down and save whatever keeps the track feeling alive.

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10/12/06 + BuddhaSystem

I think the errors are nice as long as they are carefully planned and well engineered. Can't oversetsimate that painstakingly produced human touch, like pitched corrected off tune, pops and glitches carefully peppered over the track, 32-bit modeled tape saturation... Priceless.

10/12/06 + Artsigreg

Yeah, my favorite music is human, prone to error-these days its like Rogers Waters said years ago
welcome to machine. Sucks.

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10/12/06 + Artsigreg

quantize your kids, lol.

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10/12/06 + crazyshadow

Well what i usualy produce is one major intended error of noise and over the years i have grown to like the error and imperfection of the music.

Seriously it is not possible to be perfect what seem perfect is the most imperfect of them all.

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10/12/06 + Roshi

I was reading about certain composers that realized that if they overspecified the score to the performer, the performed would become "overloaded" with information and chaotic results would happen in the performance. I can't remember who it was, but I thought it was an interesting idea.

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10/12/06 + tjames

Most of my songs are just well sequenced mistakes..

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10/12/06 + hecanjog

Artsigreg said: "quantize your kids, lol."

lol - good tshirt fodder

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10/12/06 + mlbot

actually, i think a lot of good top40 producers engineer a lot of mistakes into the music they record. Like steve albini recording the fret noises on electric guitars, or the aliasing everyone enjoys by abuising auto-tune these days.

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10/12/06 + astroid

when you get really really good at making tasty mistakes, they call that "feel".

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