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Originally Posted by Red Mastering  I second this opinion,
ppl focus too much nowadays on the things which does not really matters when you are artist...
it's all about music, production/mixing/mastering - great sound is always and it will be on the second place
can you imagine great sounding bad music ? 
what about bad sounding great music ? (i still love bob dylan's albums, even considering some of them sound bad
of course it's important, but if you MAKE music, focus on MUSIC,
technical aspects - leave it to other guys, as with audio engineering truth is you need many years to learn,
you can't just catch it in few weeks/months,
even if you are genius
good luck |
I have to jump in here. I agree with almost EVERYTHING you said, but
a.) everything you just stated pertains to an ideal world that 99.9% of us don't live in.
I am a musician and producer. I put records out on labels, but because of budget issues, as with 95% of the other artists in my genre, have no choice but to compose, produce and MIX my own tracks.
I wish, for the love of god, I did not have to mix my own records. I KNOW they would sound better if someone else mixed them. But unfortunately, I do have to learn, which is the main reason I'm on this forum all the time.
and
b.) Dance music is intended for the club, to make people dance. It is functional music. A great dance track that sounds like shit just ISN'T a great dance track because the music relies so heavily on aesthetics. Especially on the more techy side of things where tracks have little melodic content, they tend to rely almost exclusively on sound choice.