After finishing paragraph 2, I was already pissed off. What is it with people and black and white attitudes? Can't they see a place for the middle-ground in anything? He makes it sound like every producer that's worked with a rock band in the last 10 years has hard gridded the drums. There are plenty of guys out there who only move what they feel they have to, or if they quantize large chunks of a song, they do it using a moderate strength setting that strikes a balance between drummer swing and actual tightness.
I hate how analogue gear and tape somehow represents the antithesis of editing/modern recording to people. As if punching in, or tape splicing was never, ever done. Using everything at one's disposal, one can strike a harmony that is better than each individual approach by itself. I'm getting pretty sick of reading this competitive, regressive, self-defeating verbal diarrhea TBH. It's so egomaniacal. Like a kid jumping and shouting 'look at me, I'm still relevant, I'm doing it all the REAL WAY, unlike everyone else out there, I'm so much better!'. Christ.
