Dave Martone: guitar9 interview

News:
31-03-2009:

Dave Martone:

I was hired to play the guitar parts on an album from an artist named Ali Milner. She is a great singer songwriter residing in Vancouver BC Canada.

As we all know, most recording dates, including ones I have been running, are built from the ground up.

What I mean by that, is that most of the time, musicians are not playing with other musicians, but with clicks, drum machines, or existing tracks as they overdub. This has become standard practice for some reason over time. I believe this is because the engineer and producer can have a very clean take, with no bleeding of other sounds into the take, of all instruments. Also, critical listening can be made of each instrument to make sure everything is clinically perfect. Sometimes too perfect - and all the life is edited, tuned, tweaked, EQ'd and manipulated to a point that it does not even sound real anymore! Don't get me wrong, that is an effect in itself, which can be cool, but once everything is done that way, it sounds pretty... fake.

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