How Do You Know When the Source Is Correct?

If you're an engineer recording a band, you should absolutely be hearing that band playing the songs live before you even bother setting up a microphone. If there's two guitarrists and there's a vocalist, odds are you're going to be needing to do some tweaking on the respective parts of these instruments. So learning to clear that stuff out on an arrangement level will give you a sense of how their parts are constructed. And then when you go to mike and record that stuff up, half of your job is already done. Good luck mixing that stuff with any senso coherence or without using heavily the mute button. Yeand just to make sure we don't miss this