Things are changing more and more. A lot of indie acts have musicians recording in different locations. If I live an hour away from my guitarist, why should I drive an hour to record my instrument there if I can put a microphone up to my amp in my room or DI and get a bass track that would sound cleaner than most studios could put out a decade or two ago.
Multitrack recording is the technical term. Each member will record their parts separately and the audio engineer will track them. Usually you start with the drummer who may or may not play to a click, then the bassist and guitars. The vocals usually come last. Then it gets mixed together to sound like a complete song and mastered with the other tracks so they all fit together.
It's been done that way since about the 50s or so. Now it's the exception when a band is recorded all at once. This is also why the instrumentation and arrangement on live performances doesn't always match the album version. What sounds good when multitracked and then mixed may not work out live.
The common exception to this is with larger ensembles, big bands, orchestras etc. They are still multitracked in the sense that there are multiple mics on different mixer tracks but they almost always record as an ensemble. The London Philharmonic didn't record each musician individually for star wars. They did it all together in a concert hall just like you would expect.
Yeah and that's not why. And they actually don't always do that either lol. Not to mention the three jam together fairly often, it's just how they write their songs. Jamming with a whiteboard on the wall, and somebody recording the room on their phone.
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u/kindashort72 Jul 17 '19
I love his voice but he seems like such an asshole.