Jeremy wrote: In Kendall's example, he was doing it for a jingle. I suppose the recording engineer could be spared his life for the travesty of auto-tuning a horn player, but only this once. Actually, he auto-tuned everybody that day. Even the trombones were in tune! I still wonder if woodwinds had been around if that would have stopped him cold, though. Most of the commercial recording engineers, writers, producers, etc. I worked for over 40 years, have been spared their lives many times. In fact, they do very well, thank you very much, when it comes to making a living. Some of the "classical" ones, engineers and producers, alike, are the ones who should not be spared. Amazing how a great orchestra in a great hall playing the way it's supposed to play with tons of talent and years of experience can come out on disk sounding like a DCI group with 15 mics on the percussion, 12 on the trumpets and none on everyone else. I once confronted a grammy award winning "genius" why that was so, and he told me "That's what audiophiles want." So much for what "musicians" want in their work. One producer even edited out a six bar bassoon solo. I don't know why but perhaps his score reading skills were sub-par. I know for a fact that the conductor never listened to the final edit as he was already fed up with that crew's inability to make the orchestra sound realistic in the hall. That recording was nominated and won a grammy that year for "Best Engineering." The Prof's new gizmo works great. He's added the Auto-Transposition Foot Pedal and the Virtual Psycho-Acoustic Practice Simulator, which is designed to lessen guilt by non-association. He's now working on the Hand-Stopped-Stop-Mute-Fibre-Board-Carbon-Fibre-Stone-Lined-Wooden-Echo-Tone-Omni-Mute Differentiationator. I keep telling him that no one will know the difference, but he insists on being true to the score. It also will take the guesswork out of being confused. He's hoping to get it on the market before football season so that many "serious" horn students will stay home doing French Horn Hero instead of playing mellophone and ruing what little chops they have in the first place. He just got a heck of a marketing deal from Circuit City, to boot! KB
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