I disagree that old production was "horrible." People say that now because they are used to everything being drenched in effects, twenty tracks of percussion, and compressed to shit, but personally a lot of the time I prefer the simpler, rawer, and yet more spaciously mixed tracks of ten to fifteen years ago.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles I disagree that old production was "horrible." People say that now because they are used to everything being drenched in effects, twenty tracks of percussion, and compressed to shit, but personally a lot of the time I prefer the simpler, rawer, and yet more spaciously mixed tracks of ten to fifteen years ago.

I didn't say all of it.

Plus 10 years ago was 1999. Take many tracks from early 90s or even late 90s and a lot of them while compositionally good have the sound quality of a clogged toilet.

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IMO the percentage of "horrible" production was no higher back then than it is now. The difference is now that people have learned to think of polished hypercompressed turds as "normal" rather than "shit."

And that's what I'm getting at, we've gone too far with production values because we're attributing more focus on the engineering rather than the song writing. We need a middle ground.

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Originally posted by Fledz I didn't say all of it. Plus 10 years ago was 1999. Take many tracks from early 90s or even late 90s and a lot of them while compositionally good have the sound quality of a clogged toilet.

Have you got any examples of late 90s tracks with the sound quality of a clogged toilet ?

I started buying Trance in 99 and from what I remember the sound was better then than it is now.

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