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drfacehead · 24th November 2006, 09:30 PM

I just wanted to kinda go out on a limb in this type of a forum and suggest that sometimes things get TOO clean. I know I know, this is a science, not really an art, that's the producer/artist's job. But what about people who record themselves or their friends? What about people that are not involved in top 40 records? Why are we supposed to believe that the only technical approach is supposed to be "clean". I have seen some polished solid gold turds in my day, and sometimes a shit should be left a shit. Ya dig? There's a lot of room for art in the process, and you know what? There's a lot of respect given to those who think for themselves and use the gear of choice to really get where they want to be. Not because of hype of making it clean being the number one priority.

Now I'm not saying stuff should be crappy sounding at all, it should be good sounding THROUGH the proper production techniques channels (or entire lack there-of!!)....which may happen to be the more colored and dirty ones.

In a nutshell, I think recording a band is really kind of easy to **** up these days for HUGE technically talented engineers these days. The reason is because if a band doesn't best benefit from SUPER anal tight-wad cleanliness, well, then forcing that on them is as bad or worse than any kind of distortion you would induce on a band that deserves cleanliness. By way of gear selection, production, or whatever. I don't know. I just think a lot of great writers and engineers in the new school, including myself (though I'm not great by any means), are led down this stupid sheep mentality path of "make it like this with this clean ****ing gear man....AVOID color and lo-fi technciques...art pre-amps are ALWAYS bad". I know art pre-amps technically suck. They sound like shit a lot. I also know that might be just the right brush to paint a track with if some of these ****ers would open up their heads and let an idea in once in a while! Sorry to rant.

So what do you guys all think huh? And there's no "i gotta take a huge shit now" icon, so "I gotta take a huge shit now".

24th November 2006, 09:30 PM	#1
drfacehead Gear Head Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Spaceland Posts: 64	TOO clean. I just wanted to kinda go out on a limb in this type of a forum and suggest that sometimes things get TOO clean. I know I know, this is a science, not really an art, that's the producer/artist's job. But what about people who record themselves or their friends? What about people that are not involved in top 40 records? Why are we supposed to believe that the only technical approach is supposed to be "clean". I have seen some polished solid gold turds in my day, and sometimes a shit should be left a shit. Ya dig? There's a lot of room for art in the process, and you know what? There's a lot of respect given to those who think for themselves and use the gear of choice to really get where they want to be. Not because of hype of making it clean being the number one priority. Now I'm not saying stuff should be crappy sounding at all, it should be good sounding THROUGH the proper production techniques channels (or entire lack there-of!!)....which may happen to be the more colored and dirty ones. In a nutshell, I think recording a band is really kind of easy to ** up these days for HUGE technically talented engineers these days. The reason is because if a band doesn't best benefit from SUPER anal tight-wad cleanliness, well, then forcing that on them is as bad or worse than any kind of distortion you would induce on a band that deserves cleanliness. By way of gear selection, production, or whatever. I don't know. I just think a lot of great writers and engineers in the new school, including myself (though I'm not great by any means), are led down this stupid sheep mentality path of "make it like this with this clean ing gear man....AVOID color and lo-fi technciques...art pre-amps are ALWAYS bad". I know art pre-amps technically suck. They sound like shit a lot. I also know that might be just the right brush to paint a track with if some of these **ers would open up their heads and let an idea in once in a while! Sorry to rant. So what do you guys all think huh? And there's no "i gotta take a huge shit now" icon, so "I gotta take a huge shit now". __________________ I'm retarded. You save the world.