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Originally Posted by frontierfran  so funny. As I laid down a scratch vocal idea last night with my API and 414, I found myself throwing a Bit Crusher PI on it, because the creamy sheen I had tracked was too hi-fi for me and I expereimented with "shitting up" my cleanly laid track. 
I find myself doing this a lot. ive caught the indie-prod bug i suppose. funny... |
Nah, I dirty up tracks all the time as well.
What I'm talking about is people deliberately making their tracks sound like crap just to cash in on the indie 'lofi' trend. Overproducing them to make them sound crappy just like people overproduce other styles of music in an attempt to make it sound like a super produced pop hit or whatever.
In both cases clearly the song and arrangement should be of more importance. That's why Sufjan is successful, and these people aren't for the most part.
Engineering an album is about the most effective way to communicate the song and arrangement. So sometimes a grungy vocal will be the most effective way to get the point across and sometimes a super clean one will be. My point is that when the production values get in the way of of the music, the track will suffer, and my critique of these producers is that they don't have much to say musically, so consciously or not they try to cover that problem up with their production methods.