Artists and producers often use samples and plug-ins to save money, lowering the quality of their final product.

An online session keyboard player that actually has the vintage gear can also save money, yet can deliver the high quality product that only using real instruments produce. Online sessions eliminate cartage, studio time, gear rental fees and transportation costs. With these expenses out of the equation suddenly choosing real vintage instruments becomes equally affordable.

The differences between sample and plug-ins and real instruments are huge.

Samples and plug-ins are one-dimensional and static. Real keyboard instruments have depth, character and movement. They sit nicely in a mix without fighting the other instruments.

There is a reason people still use so much Hammond B3 and analog synths with heavy guitars; they complement them and make them sound better rather than fighting them for the same frequencies in the mix.

The extra dimensions that starts from a B3 tone wheel generator and ends with moving air from spinning speakers of a Leslie simply cannot be reproduced. The imperfection and movement created by analog tone generators cannot be copied.

The tuning imperfections, string resonances, different tones from different degrees of velocity on the keys (how hard you hit the keys), differences in tines, pick-ups, distance from pick-ups, and all sorts of other variables in acoustic pianos, fender rhodes electric pianos, wurlitzer electric pianos, and clavinets, cannot be properly modeled or sampled.

Get your keyboard tracks done online by a keyboardist that has all the important vintage keyboards in his own studio.

If you are reading this article you are probably investigating online keyboard tracks versus traditional methods of getting pro keyboard tracks.

It is a wise pursuit indeed to look in to getting your keyboard tracks online because there are advantages.

One big advantage, you will save a lot of money. You can get the real thing for a fraction of what it would cost to do the traditional way. Instead of settling for samples and modeling to save money, get your tracks done online by a keyboard player who already has all the vintage gear in his studio.

Remember, nothing sounds or feels like the real thing. Using real vintage keyboards brings your recordings to new levels.

Online keyboard recording — more bang for your buck.

Your savings are firstly based on not having to pay a whole bunch of people.  To get professional, custom keyboard tracks you normally would have to pay

1. someone for rental of the studio space/recording equipment
2. sound engineers
3. cartage (transportation of keyboard equipment to and from studio)
4. equipment rental — not everyone has all the vintage keyboards to make the session special, and of course…
5. the session keyboardist.

And also, when paying for studio time you don’t pay a flat fee, you pay by the hour.

That means you are paying while the keyboards are set up and mics set up/patched in.  You are paying while the engineer and the keyboardist are dialing in the sounds.  You are paying while breaks that are taken during tracking, and after tracking you are paying while the keyboards are taken down.

This can add up to some costs that are simply not within many budgets.  Often an nine-song album can cost, just for keyboard tracks, upwards of $5000.

Online keyboard recording, on the other hand, is much more affordable.

You only have to pay one person for your keyboard tracks, the online session keyboardist.  In most cases there is a flat, per-track fee.  That means no worries about having to pay by the hour, nervously watching the dollars fly out of your pocket as the minutes tick by.

You also could save a lot of money in transportation costs.    Considering that many times studio keyboard players have to be flown to locales for recording, there are possible huge savings there as well.  If you get your keyboard tracks online, you can choose any keyboard player you like without worrying about location.

This widens your choices considerably beyond the session keyboard players in your area.You even save gas money not having to drive to and from the studio.

You have choices regarding getting keyboard tracks over the internet. There are several sites for this, but you must choose wisely.  Look for more of my articles on the subject of online keyboard recording for helpful guidance in finding the right online studio keyboard player for your project.