IlayaRaja's New Albums 2013-15 - Mahendran film/Thaarai thappattai/Mythri

[kiru]

Very strange .. in this same forum people were complaining about synths. Now we get an album with live acoustic recording and you guys say 'no big deal'. Come on guys.. gone are the days when IR used to record with this many number of people/instruments. Many commented about the few people in the studio doing complete recordings. IR himself takes his salary separately and charges more for the recording. He convinced pazhassi rAjA team to pay more for orchestral recording. Whenever a big string section is used for recording it makes a news (like it did for en mana vaanil - enna solli paaduvatho).
In recent albums only a few instruments are real - tabla in mayilu, electric/acoustic guitars in snehaveedu/ramana etc. The main reason we dont notice much difference is because the drum sounds is set to real drumkit sound and the strings on keyboard, for that matter any instrument, are more realistic sounding now, as they are actually playing back recorded live instruments (sampled). Quality difference is more like different bit rates of mp3. But we can also notice from the way the instrument sounds - there is a difference between a key press and for eg. fingers plucking a guitar string.