Good advice from the other guys, I'll spice up the dispute a bit.
> I've been reading about the horrors of grossly untalented and unprepared musicians coming through the studio and needing a studio musician to sit in on the session to record their parts.
I have too, and i have seen *and* heard them. One of them had a French Horn and the other one a Viola. It was disgusting. Especially the Violist, i thought i heard the proverbial cat (the one whose gut the strings were made of) screeching and screaming. The horn player was not much better, at one time i considered filling the instrument with wax to bring it in tune...
On the other hand, i have worked with a lot of talented , skillful, prepared and disciplined musicians. They played instruments like electric guitar, drum kit and synthesizer even, and they played, you know, all that modern electrified stuff that they call music nowadays...
>That is why recording "real" musicians who know the concept of practice and discipline, who can play the crap out of their instruments, is a much more attractive option.
> I'll be going to school for audio engineering this year
What makes you think that those folks, be it so-called classical musicians or pop oriented session players would want to work with *you* who very obviously does not have neither the experience nor the knowledge under his belt that they do ? Take it from the well of wisdom that top level players want top level engineers, and the road to either top range classical engineer or top range pop engineer is a bumpy one either way.
Besides, calling a bassoon player with half a year's worth of practice a 'real musician', while a seasoned guitarist who plays the Nashville studio mile up and down daily therefore would be 'unreal' i.e. fake, is what i'd think of as pretentious bordering on the offensive. I hope that's not what you implied.
>And it is my assumption that talented musicians, ie: classical/baroque musicians,
Talented = classical/baroque ??? Ugh....must...not...respond...to...this....gnnnn...
> hired by an orchestra, are much more abundant than your average 20 year old in a band wanting to cut an album.
You truly have no idea, it seems. To become a musician who is paid for what he does (either classical or modern) takes talent and years and years of practice and endurance on top of it. To 'be in a band (which might as well be a string quartet, mind you) wanting to cut an album' is so easy that literally anyone can do it. Which, do you think, is the bigger crowd ?
You might want to consider rethinking your attitude and concepts towards what being a classical or modern musician comprises of.
Other than that, have fun.
Christian
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