Gene Paul Research Paper

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Gene Paul has credit in nine award winning albums and twenty-nine nominations within fifteen different genres. He comes from a background of talented musicians and has been exposed to the music industry since childhood. His father Les Paul was a musician and the inventor of the electric body guitar. Gene was raised into a world filled with creativity and musical influences. He has been taught by the best. At a young age his technical skills and techniques were way beyond his years. Up to this date Gene has had the opportunity to work with legendary musicians, such as Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Led Zeppelin. Gene Paul now continues to stretch the boundaries of audio engineering tremendously. He has been able to achieve all of this by embracing the human element in music. …show more content…
In the past everything was recorded on to tape. Nothing was digital. If you have to redo a take, you had to really reconsider it. Musicians had to come to the studio with their “A” game. Redoing a take was very costly in an analogue studio so there wasn't much room for mistakes. In Gene's opinion this process brought out the best in musicians. You can't just rewind and re record. Now because of advanced digital

technology, mix and mastering engineer end up doing too much technical edits to the production. However, Gene Pau says, “The imperfection is necessary to retain the human element in music: (“The Auspicious Apprenticeship of Gene Paul” 7). Music without the human imperfection will sound too repetitive. It sounds robotic, and ultimately can take away some of the emotion that is being expressed by these imperfections. Emotions can be very well the essence of music and without it music is nothing but noise.
John Helps lead guitarist from the band, Maybeshewill makes a statement that can relate to Gene’s philosophy on musical production, “There's just something different and special about recording the real thing. That human element, I guess the imperfections,