This is an exerpt from something I wrote for an upcoming issue of Canadian Musician. You’ll have to keep checking your newstands to get the full deal….
The great thing about technology is that it can be used to make things better. The problem with technology is that, before you can say “I forgot the music” it can also pave a direct route right around you and lead you quickly up a tunnel and into your own back entrance.
Technological advances in recording over the last 10 or 15 years have turned almost every musician on the planet into some form of recording engineer. I, for one, have waited for these salad days for my whole musical career. Anyone who hears something in their head and cannot figure out a way to get someone else to capture it for them has suffered agonizing pain. Man plays guitar in studio. Guitar sounds like angels whispering of endless sexual gratification. Man experiences performance of a lifetime. Man ventures into control room. Guitar sounds like dolphins farting through a wiffleball. Engineer says, “man this tone is sweeeet”. Man is deflated and goes to bathroom to escape. Man stares balefully into toilet at his own distorted reflection and ponders the truth of Dad
