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Originally Posted by yep
But that is not usually what people are looking for in modern popular music recordings. These days, everything is supposed to be larger-than-life, realer-than-real, hyped and firey without sounding "distorted." We are no longer creating accurate recordings of live performances, we are creating artificial soundscapes that the live concerts will later try to duplicate with studio tricks.
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Often this is dead true. There are exceptions to that in some genres like folk and classical where the objective is to just capture the performance in a pure form. But yeah, point taken.
Pop music recordings are often like movies, partly an illusion. It's entertainment. Those actors in the movies aren't really doing some of that stuff either, it's part editing and part fakery.
As opposed to a "concert", a stage play.
There's movies and then there are plays. There's pop and then there are live classical recordings. Unfortunately in music, many people (the listening audience) don't always realize how much of an illusion it really is sometimes.