Soundreplacing & Reamping...

[brandy]

Hi,

i do not post on a regular base in that forum, but i just browsed a lot of topics and i noticed that here is a lot of traffic as well as a great amount of shared knowledge. Looks like i should come by more often? ;-)

I read a lot about reamping and soundreplacement. There are even shared samples - some of them made by Andy himself as well as there is a cool mixing contest.

Relating to that contest i listened to a few mixes, all of them are great, but most of them are sounding very similar - trendy in some way. Nothing bad about that.

I was guessing that the samples which are used are very similar, if not the same.


So i come to my "question":


Why does every "modern" mixing AE replace the original drumtracks as well as he uses high-end guitar tones to replace the guitar tracks?

Isn't it possible to stay with the original tracks? It is much more work to mix the crap out of medium quality drumtracks and medium quality guitar tracks, but in the end you will have a UNIQUE SOUNDING result.

There is nothing bad about drumagog etc, i do that stuff since years as well as i usually record additional DI tracks of the guitars "just for the case of".

But today there are so many mixes who are sounding so similar.

It seems that anyone is trying to achive results sounding similar to Andys great work or the work of those "danish guys" which are very great as well.

This is not ment to offend anyone, this is just ment as a "suggestion".


Just my 0.02Cent




brandy

 

[Benny H]

I think it's really something the artist should decide on, and when the technology and techniques are more 'common knowledge', it'll probably be more like that.
At the moment I'd say there's not such an awareness outside of the AE community.

So the musician is just amazed and happy with such a seemingly perfect sound for their music. If they don't know or care that there's a very fake element, they aren't gonna think "hang on a minute.. I don't want to go this way" ya know?

As far as the AE's situation.. well that's a different story. He/she wants the best sound attached to their name.

The whole situation will sort itself out eventually I think.

P.S. Epitaph is amazing man!

 

[brandy]

Yea, the situation is realy up to the artist. If they want that it is the way to go.. I just find that more "individual" recordings are much more... mh. . "futureproof". I mean, if they are great, people will still listen to that record and get mad in 20 years.

I hope that will be the case with epitaph )

brandy