Well my take on it all is this:

Most albums these days are recorded to click, often live instrumental work is re-sampled Drums particularly.

I recorded an album with one of the  bands (find it here >  www.elephantshelf.com ) that I play in and we did it live plus a couple of over dubs, no click tracks or sampling. Its being played on around 32 specialist EU FM stations and has had some UK play on  local FM too.

People either love it or hate it as it sounds like it was recorded in the early 70’s sonically. We had the option to record it anyway that we like as we are fortunate enough to have a live room that will take up to 10 players, so our album sounds like the band at a gig but with a cleaner sound.

We have been told by various record producers(alleged) that we should spend 30 grand re-recording with them using click tracks sampling & so forth as we will never get mainstream radio play with it sounding the it is ( we could rip the tracks apart and do that out selves if we wanted to anyway LOL). But the punters like it and we are lining up festivals next year in the EU so we think we have got it right.

Punters have no idea what live music sounds like as so many bands use midi & sampling in what is supposed to be a live performance and this ultimately leads to sterility in music. IMHO

Miles Davis did not have a click track or autotune. Would Bob Dylan have got on the X factor, I suspect not…

Even those performers that are perfectly capable of a good live performance are discouraged from doing so in the interests of perfection….

For my solo stuff I do it all with a click track of course LOL  ;)
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