Piano Forum

Piano Street Magazine:
When Practice Stagnates – Breaking the Performance Ceiling: Robotic Training for Pianists

“Practice makes perfect” is a familiar mantra for pianists, yet true perfection remains elusive. Research suggests that a robotic exoskeleton could assist pianists during the practice phase in increasing speed in difficult passages by overcoming the well-known “ceiling effect”. Read more

Pages: [1] Go Down

Topic: Studio recordings in XXI century (Read 1486 times)

stormx

PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
Posts: 396

Studio recordings in XXI century

on: September 26, 2005, 04:48:38 PM

Hi,

I know that, using nowadays technologies, studio recordings are "fake", in some way. For only piano pieces, technicians just cut and paste parts of different takes, creating a perfect version that was probably never played altogether.

I wonder what does happen with orchestra...Are all group of instruments recorded playing at the same time or, as most pop bands really do, each group of instruments is recorded separatelly?

For instance, you can have the violins play alone, and then the wind instruments play alone (while listening to the violins)...Finally, all is added. Is this a common practice in classical music studio recordings?

Logged

xvimbi

PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
Posts: 2439

Re: Studio recordings in XXI century

Reply #1 on: September 26, 2005, 04:54:45 PM

I have not seen instruments being recorded separately, not even for film music, but I don't want to exclude anything nowadays. Otherwise, orchestral pieces are just as much spliced together as anything else.