Do You Need an Engineer in the Studio?

In this http://www.artistshousemusic.org video interview, Carl Beatty, a veteran engineer and Professor of Production and Engineering at Berklee College of Music, discusses do-it-yourself recording sessions (engineered by the artist or producer) versus sessions engineered by a professional, and assesses the benefits of working with a professional engineer.

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[wado1942]

@marcusdolby1 I'll tell you, I'm more of an engineer than a musician by a long shot. A friend and I have been working on an album for a long time. There's been places where we brought in somebody else to act as engineer so that we could just worry about playing well together (remember when songs had "feel" to them?) and let the engineer worry about the technical stuff. Those sessions went SO much faster and more smoothly than the ones where I was handling recording and playing.

[marcusdolby1]

An engineer and / or producer gives the artist the freedom of concentrating on the performance. Put aside the knowledge of the equiptment or the years experience they have, and they still are very beneficial as a second ear or another view on how things sould sound.

[THECHiiNO101]

you need engineer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

[nonomu1988]

You need engineer?

[zyruemusic]

If U are an artist cranking song after song out like a Prince or Stevie Wonder then U NEED to have engineers from those schools plus this is an International business which means U could go to Mexico,Israel,Japan, and engineer let alone the possiblities of the Tina Turner's undiscovered or unknown from Nutbush,Tenn or that could sing like a Fantasia or my homegirl SASSY....So FEEL IT FAM!!! Once U know how to fish..U GON EAT!!! And believe me what I tell U engineering is fishing HOLLA!!

[lindenhu]

If you don't understand sound engineering, your recording will sound like you don't understand engineering. The worst mistake non engineers make is adding bass. Their recordings are muddy. Also, no producer? Then bad arrangement of instrumentation. 50 instruments instead of 3. A mistake unless you're an arranger.

[86nigga]

so true

[tortillavoladora]

I agree but then again he stands behind engineers being trained by him. He does not want to advice musicians to do it themselves because then his students will not have a future...