The tracking engineer is on site when these mistakes are being made. Where would -you- fix them? I don't know that they are always the responsibility of the recordist at all... if I'm playing out of tune, shouldn't I be responsible for that? Why is it someone else's problem? Besides that, is there a producer? It is not entirely clear to me that the problems are the responsibility of the recording engineer, but it should be clear that the time and place to fix these mistakes are when and where they are being made. "Fix it in the mix" is lazy bullshit.
"I recorded a project and afterwards spent many hours fixing many timing and tuning issues. "
yeah, that seems to be a trend, doesn't it? Spend days fixing the errors on a three minute song? I just have them spend another three minutes. My mantra: "It's a fucking three minute pop song. Learn your part." I know how to do my job, why don't they?
Bill
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