quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Yeah, I expected as much. I do quite like some of these tunes, they have that deep, mellow analogue vibe, but I don't get why they need to sound like shit. It does just seem to be another example of millennial fetishisation of "authenticity" as denoted through deliberate imperfections. |
Yeah, definitely. Though I honestly think a lot of it is just young producers using it as a technical crutch. Applying just the right amount of saturation etc. to make it 'analogue' and punchy is HARD and takes years of assembling proper engineering knowledge. If you just steamroll the whole track instead, you essentially save yourself from having to do a proper mixdown and engineering everything right, since the whole track is fucked beyond recognition anyways. It's a very effective way of concealing technical flaws - i'm fairly certain 90% of these lo-fi producers couldn't even make the 'perfect', over-engineered club music that they are supposedly trying to avoid.
I can empathisze with them a lot, since i've essentially gone through the same thing. I was always trying to avoid having to learn all this boring ass technical stuff but at some point i've just realized that there's no point in resisting and i'm just going to have to go through it if I want to make tracks that don't sound like shit.
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