I can understand where people are going with the dry productions but Pro-Tools and 'DIGITAL' music can sound really cool depending on how you produce it. Of course the typical prog-house, trance production has a cheap digial quality to it with clean effects and reverb but a good dj can mix a Paul Okenfold record or some pop dance record with an underground techno record and make it sound cool.
on 2/3/03 9:59 AM, Andrew at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Dennis, > Ah, well I meant no offense. When he said it he seemed pretty amused, (I was > talking to him about the possibility of mastering some of stuff, like > thousands of others) and we both chuckled at the idea of just lathering in > saturation, just for sake of sounding like ''whoever'' - it wasn't a Deep > Chord release we talked about, I'd rather not name names. But I still think > it's lame - it's like BC never happened. > Anyway, the reason I posted was to hopefully spur a conversation about the > total overproduction of music, which this thread had drifted on to. It seems > like so many releases are guilty of digitising the soul out of the music, > which could be due to the tendency to over-compress, normalize every sample > (or the stereo master), or to get the mastering guy to take all the dynamic > range out of a track by pumping it beyond measure. Pro-Tools is a definite > culprit in giving releases a homogenous 'sound', unless your careful. Also > with the advent of units like the Finalizer, more people are pre-mastering, > which only aggravates the problem. It all makes for cool peak-time stormers, > but for music with a little ''soul'', it can be a problem, in my opinion. > What's interesting is that hip hop guys manages to imbue their music with a > lot of spirit and soul and funk, while at the same time using whatever > effects they can to pump up the music and make it louder, which his maybe > due to their original sound sources, but also their unwillingness to be > trapped into quantization and program beats in a different way. So maybe > dance guys need to stop using sound modules and Roland kit, and open the net > sound-wise? > I'm just intersted in people's opinions, I've been dying to talk about this > with intelligent people for a while now, and I'm not interested in being > ''right'' - just talking about it. > thanks, > Andrew
