[dreamsongs]

Wow, somebody resucitated this from a while back but always a current topic.

In all this time I still haven't changed my way of thinking. I'm still convinced that if you take a good song (not great but not crap either) you can turn it into a hit song. But it will take a great Producer because I've also seen many really good songs butchered and ruined by shitty Producers as well.

I'm not discovering anything new here since we hear it happen every day in the radio. I have lots of current Cd's of songs that are not that great stripped down but sound incredible after Production. I also must say that some songs sound better in their original state pre-production.

So to me the challenge is to take a pretty good song and try not to f*ck it up too bad. Sometimes I get it right and it sounds great and other times I've completely screwed it up and have to go back to the drawing board.

I've learned a lot listening to well produced albums and what makes what work. I'm less prone now to screwing any song up and much closer to putting out consistent good material.

So that's the real point of this thread. You can actually "produce" a hit song or at least a very good song if you line up all the ducks in a row and you know what you're doing....