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Originally Posted by
SFTPH
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It was the best because the producer/engineer got everything into it sounding great i.e. performances and tones. A great song w/ great playing and great tones will mix itself and make any DAW sound big as f*ck.
It's my sense that
most of us (and
very much myself included) don't tap out the full quality their gear is capable of. (And
my gear is very modest and I actually have more than half a clue as to how to use it, having been doing this stuff for more than a quarter century -- and longer, if you count before I worked in studios).
I'm not saying that people shouldn't get nice gear if they can afford it.
I'm just saying that
gear quality (from today's pro-sumer on up) is not
nearly the contributing factor as the quality of players and instruments and the skill and ear of the engineer and producer.
And that
many people who keep looking
outside themselves to improve their recordings should probably spend less time fretting over gear and more time really getting to know how to pull the
best out of it they can.