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| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
I think there is way too much emphasis on the "pro sound."
When I hear a lot of tracks, it seems obvious that the people who made them thought more about the "production" side than about the musical side, more about whether the track "sounded professional" than about whether it would really move people.
You can work very hard at dressing up a boring, heartless, and forgettable composition with nifty sounds and effects, and EQing and compressing it so that it sounds great on a club system. It will probably even get people dancing as long as it booms out of the speakers with plenty of force. But in the end it will still be boring and heartless. |
You are dead on!! I use to have so much more fun when I was just making music, once you start trying to get everything sounding professional you lose sight of what you are trying to do, which is having fun making music. I've tried stop worrying so much about the "pro sound" and just focus on making music. You can drive yourself crazy trying to learn all the intricicies of EQ and COMP.
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Is that Pro tracks have air in the mix space and a confidence in what they have produced that comes through. Like listen to amature tracks (and heres where someones gonna trip me) They are rammed with stuff I am guilty of it as well. listen to some of armins tunes well the ones he mixes and the melodies are occaisionally just off beat plucks over a pad low in the mix and a nice bass. They sound way better than mine yet contain a lot less.
