I cannot hear it anymore. There are killer straight to 2-track, 8-track, infinite tracks and processed to the 10th degree records out there.
Use what helps the music most.
Not everyone is recording acoustic music and some of the songs of your 'clothes-selling' celebrities are top-notch production - and songwriting-wise. They often use very capable players to record their 'karaoke'.
And there was crap music in the 60s and 70s as well.
Just think of that unbearable reggae-tune of Led Zeppelin.
I'm really sick of that 'just 8 tracks', 'no compression', 'eq is evil' 'today's music sucks' - BS.
Reminds me of grannies always telling younger people how great everything was decades ago and how everything sucks nowadays.
Sorry, rant over.
