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Originally Posted by audiothings can anyone explain this:
i don't really give a **** about the 'sound quality' of the records i listen to again and again. on an objective level, many of them are deficient in so many ways... too much hiss, not enough bass, clarity or detail, can't hear the bass drum or the bass, theres nothing above 8khz.... but i still feel like listening to them every so often.
at other times i'm comparing one preamp to another, waking in the middle of the night and thinking 'lavry or apogee', 'osa or sca', 'rockwool or glasswool'....
can somebody help me understand, i wake up with a song in my head everyday, and that song has nothing to do with 'sound quality', but i *think* about sound quality all thie time... |
Yeah, every time I get hung up about some little detail or microminutia in the recording or mixing process I try to force my self to get past it by realizing that in the end, no one is buying the album because of which vocal mic we used, or because I got a great kick drum sound. People would still buy the album because the music they want to hear is on it.
The more and more I work in this field as an engineer (and not as a musician), I realize my job is simply about capturing the moment and trying not to **** it up.
Everything else (gear obsession) is just about making the process more interesting, for ME, from a technical perpective, which also sometimes has the consequence of making for a better sounding recording.
