Car stereo shit is ungodly fun, especially burping a competition SPL setup when no one’s expecting it, but once you get into home audio, it takes a lot of the fun out of it, at least if you’re after SQ/SQL. Although, you can make fun of the $5,000 power cable HT guys, which almost makes up for it.

What really sucks are cars in general as an environment for audio. I don’t go and sit in front of my front right speaker at home, you know? Much less road noise, engine noise, traffic, wind at 75 MPH, etc…

I know that most of haven’t even been to a big studio to see how its done.

Just cause you have a Pro Tools/Logic/Etc unit at home. Doesn’t make you a Producer/Engineer or whatever you want to name yourself.

So what I find it’s that 99% of all you that talk this talk about recording really don’t have clue what’s going on with recording/mixing/mastering.

I have seen it time and time again. People talk a good talk walk into the big room and have no idea how or what to do with a session.

and yes Ross Robinson is the production god… not for the slickness beacuse it quite raw but for the performance and intensity your hear on the albums… its a true sounding record….

If your drummers or guitarists suck they should practice more to a metronome, you’re right, but to act like a tool is killing modern records is ridiculous, there are just as many talented musicians today as there ever were – many of whom do not need timing errors fixed at all, but sometimes its just a more efficient use of time to quantise mistakes instead of doing take over take over take when a member just can’t quite nail it in time.

You have to realise that recording budgets are being slashed these days anyway because no one is buying records and labels want to save a buck or two, couple this with the fact that they want two more songs for the japanese market in the same amount of time they used to want 10-12 and it’s definitely much more of a rush.

Also I have to disagree with the statement that quantisation and excessive triggering makes bands sound weak and thin – on the contrary it makes weak and thin bands sound powerful on a record, but it also sucks the life/personality out of them, usually however if the musicians are not talented enough then they won’t have too much of this anyway. In addition, you also never addressed my point of – at what stage is it cheating? The digital process is geared towards making it easier for all parties involved – you could theoretically argue that if a band doesn’t nail the whole song in a room with one take then it it’s cheating.

As for the assuming anything about you, I didn’t need to, you clearly don’t really know what you’re talking about and have now resolved to base level insults and meandering rants to try and prove a point against me, I mean really? C’mon now man, grow up.

And because you don’t know nor care how to spell quantizing proves further that you do not know what your talking about.