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Matt posed this question to the original poster

"The only question I have to the initial poster, is that if the performance is considered good enough to begin with, then more trust should be given without that big click track."


A GREAT LIVE BAND, so yeah why bother with the click.... otherwise what performance was or is considered good enough to begin with?

And with a GREAT live band comes a must have great drummer. And still just maybe he is in the studio and says to the engineer,
"Give me the click in my phones only" the rest will play off me"
Besides great drummers play in great time in groove with NO click. Why? because they spent more hours than you can imagine practicing and playing with one.. that's why.

If I'm not mistaken Matt plays alone, and mostly without programming or use of drum machine/loops etc...
So perhaps he hits the record button and then beings to play.

The first track whatever instrument it is is going to be out of time accept from the perspective of "In time to itself"
That's wonderful, but now the next track played over it is going to be off period, in trying to stay with the other track, hence a poor performance which is the number one thing to kill a recording.

This whole click track thing is not just a question of preference. It is all depending on WHAT your doing and how you are going about doing it.

Timing is part of music no matter how much we would like to ignore it, or whatever trouble arrives from it.
You do what is needed for the task at hand.

The CLICK track is only an issue when TIMING is an issue.

Joyboy - great post...