DrumEatDrum
Platinum Member
Damn you sheep will really listen to anything... Gavin quantizing? Really? Do you have ears of your own? If you listen to a track and can't tell whether a metronome's been used or not, then f*ck, you have a lot more listening to do.*
What's ironic in all this is we now have audio engineers spending a load of time figuring out "studio magic" and how to fix drum tracks to the point where the general public doesn't know the difference, instead of hiring a drummer who's spent a load of time figuring out how to play.
*Yup I realize quantizing is different then a click, but both result in a sterile-sounding recording. I'd take a skilled drummer's internal time than a click on a recording every day of the week.
Not 100% necessarily all true.
Clicks can be programmed to speed up and slow down.
Good drummers can push and pull to give an organic feel even on a straight click.
Sloppy drummers are going to dance around the click regardless.
As Kenny Arnoff has said, some times he plays left hand lead because it gives a track a deliberate sloppy feel, even to a click.
A producer can take a track that had no click and no quantization, and cut and paste or loop a track to feel sterile. Or in the 70s disco era, when they would record one drum at a time, without a click, which made some pretty sterile drum parts.
In the right/wrong hands, there are ways to make a click not feel sterile, and make a non-click track still feel sterile.