The Art of Recording

15	The Final Artistic Processes and an Overview of Music Production Sequences

Multitrack and direct-to-master recording processes can represent the extremes of the different recording aesthetics, and are very different in their production sequences and their utilization of recording techniques. The artistic use of the recording medium, the importance of the performers and their interactions, and the amount of input the recordist has on the artistic aspects of the recording may be very different between multitrack recordings and direct-to-master recordings.

The differences in approach to production (often linked to aesthetic approaches discussed in Chapter 12) are reflected in the sequence of events that occur in creating the music recordings. ...