mazzrick

What a fascinating article. I was never aware of any of this. Something about editing though:
to the best of my knowledge, almost all produced recordings are edited. I've done a few recordings with Martha DeFransisco, the recording engineer and maybe producer for either most of or all of Hakan Hardenberger's Phillips recordings. Her opinion on editing recordings is that people are not buying a concert (unless they are buying a live recording) and that the recording should be as perfect as possible. Even with edits, it is still a representation of the performer's playing, except in this odd case with Hatto. If I buy a recording, I don't want to hear mistakes or imperfections. I want to hear that perfomer's ideal rendition of a piece. I also know that edits are not always used to cover mistakes. More often than not it's the extra quality (really nailing it) in one section that gets edited in.

Take for instance the German Brass recordings. Their recordings are often not as good as a live concert. This is mostly because they don't rehearse for recordings, if you can believe it, and for concerts they at least have a soundcheck before-hand and maybe a rehearsal between shows on a tour. These recordings are unfortunate, even though they're still great. They are perfectly honest maybe even totally unedited and I use the word unfortunate because if they could be edited to sound like their ultimate performance, I would rather that than a straight to disc recording of their session. Thoughts?

Matt