The recording studio is relatively dead, not because that's what sounds best, but so that the sound can be controlled. If you were to record in a reverberant room, the reverberation could not be controlled. What you got recorded would be it. But by recording the artist with a minimum of room effect, the mixer can add just the right amount of effects, whatever they may be, to achieve what is desired.

Just saw, in another thread, that jh20477 is a soundmixer. Hopefully he'll chime in here.

Jack

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue." - G. K. Chesterton