[quote name='slaphappygarry' post='610604' date='Sep 28 2009, 08:43 AM']I do a lot of these recordings and some of them are touched up under microscopic scrutiny. Some jobs I have to edit out a train wreck which involves dubbing bits. Some Jazz recordings I have done go down and then go out as they happened.
Its very interesting to hear what you think about all this. 90% of the time its down to my client as to what they want.
Garry
Ps - I regularly thicken up crowd noise if it is a quiet gig / huge hall / pathetic response on a particular track / to hide some chat and I have never considered this as 'cheating'..[/quote]
no it's not at all cheating. I think it's cheating when you re-record an [i]entire[/i] track in the studio because 'some of it was slightly out of time, and ok, maybe the vocals just went off here a bit, so we'll re-record the whole track. Oh crap, the drums missed a snare, right, in the studio you go'. I think that minor touch-ups and re-recording bits of it are fine, it's just when they muck up a track and, because its a good song, they [i]have[/i] to have it on the live album, so they re-record all of it and stick some crowd in it.