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Originally Posted by arpodthegreat i´ve been trying to understand why old records sound great. i listen to a lot of 60s stuff like the velvet underground, pretty things, 13th floor elevators, old dylan, etc... and i noticed that sometimes you can barely make out the drums. it´s just the hi hat or the snare that you hear. everything is "muddy" and it sounds like someone just rolled off the high end. the weird thing is i don´t mind it and it actually sounds great. so i´m wondering how these old records "get away" with that sound. |
The songs were so good that the production didn't matter... now a days songs are being "produced" into "product" where in those days great performances of great songs were recorded... which is how the "got away" with the shit sounding like that [there was a ton of crap recorded during that time as well... you just don't hear that crap today because it was crap and dismissed as irrelevant].
If you have great songs and performances they'll still be great songs if you record them on a cassette deck in your bedroom... if you have mediocre songs and mediocre artists then you'll need the full power of a high-tech studio to try to drag out something of moderate interest.