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bluGill • today at 1:13 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

That is a weird phrase.

I can only make sense of it as "musicians are so bad at playing together that we don't try". If say the bass player cannot play with others I'm going to record them playing each chord/note in isolation, and then use that as midi samples to track. Do that to everything and you get perfectly lined up music. If you can play together "good enough" then I'm not going to do that.


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viraptor • today at 1:21 PM

That's how I read it: "lost the ability to play together" -> "tracks recorded individually to clicks and perfected before mixing".

KaiserPro • today at 3:10 PM

I think its the difference between playing live, playing in parts and playing to a click track.

again these are not exclusive, Even though I fucking hate it, I can drum live to a click track. I hate it because everytime I am slightly off I can fucking hear it like being hit over the head with a frying pan.