Recreative Recording:
“As the term ‘Recreative’ implies, this philosophy of recording intends to recreate a sonic experience for listeners in their own environment. The purpose is to make listeners feel that they are listening to a real event — something that actually happened, or could have happened — that has been transferred in time and/or space and transported into their presence via the recording process.
This requires that all sense of the event’s realism must be captured and retained, so that listeners will feel as though they are participants at the event. Concerts, sporting events, news and documentaries are among the sonic events most appropriate to this recording philosophy.”
-Ron Streicher
Creative Recording:
“Creative’ recording brings to the listener an experience which never happened in ‘real time,’ but which the creators of the sonic illusion would like to have happened. As before, the intent is to make listeners participants at this sonic event, even though this might be impossible to achieve in the ‘real world.’
When creating a listening experience, applicable recording techniques allow considerably more experimentation, so that multi-microphone, multi-track procedures are more commonly utilized. Significant signal processing, synthesis, and artificial ambience are also employed to create a new, unique listening experience.”
Hear both recording styles for yourself:
For BRS Sessions, we’ve done several recordings in both creative and recreative techniques.
The recreative mix should resemble the sound of being physically present in the recording room, hearing the sounds of instruments as they do in real life.
The creative version is the finished released track. Listening to both versions of the same song can leave a deeper imprint of the sound of the session.
Jim Oblon - Live at Aspen’s Place
