[Beyersound]

Originally Posted by Icecoldr

I have been reading these posts for a long time now and I'm sick of folks telling guys that don't know any better that if they get this or that gear, it will make their music sound more like a store bought CD. The truth is that you got to know what you are doing. The bottom line is that there's nothing you can buy that will take you from newbe to pro. It takes time to get that pro sound . I can put someone in the (Hit Factory) with all that high end gear, but that doesn't mean they will mix a CD that sounds like a "50 cent," CD. Come on man, some of the guys that mix those CD's have been mixing for like 30 years. Just to touch on one more thing, recording studios back in the 50's and 60's didn't have half the cool gear we have in our bedrooms today. They still made hits that live on today. The truth is, you can get a great sound with a $100 pre amp and Protools LE; then do that. There are no rules, so don't think you can't make a great song even if you don't have all that high end gear these guys talk about . My lil bro, (KILLA TRAKZ), makes some of the best music on the internet with a small amount of gear and it has a great sound . It would blow your mind away at what he does with this gear that some of you on this site would call, "low end gear". (LET ME KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS)


PS. Let this vintage thing go, and I bet most of you have a HDTV in your house; why because it shows a better picture . So why can't todays gear be as good or better than the gear of the past?

+1 +1 +1!!!!!! I am one of those guys who has been doing it almost 30yrs, the first song I had on a platinum record was tracked in a bedroom through dynamic mics and a small live console (through the onboard pres!) onto a 1/4 inch 8 track. You can do great things with carefully chosen lower end and midrange gear. I have been flamed for mixing ITB and saying you don't need a vintage console or have to have Protools HD as your DAW to make a great sounding record. You are as right as anyone can be that "there are no rules"! That's why a lot of those great records happened back in the 50s and 60s, because people either didn't know, or were breaking "the rules". They didn't start at Motown or at EMI (with the Beatles) with the best gear or newest gear, and they certainly didn't follow the rules, but those records speak for themselves!