Xosar "Let Go" https://opaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/xosar-let-go every track on the ep have all the high frequencies cut off. The tracks are great and have a good grimey quality to them but yeah, mixing this with anything else is rough.
rdevito
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Originally posted by Silky Johnson
More of that old dusty records stuff.
Art Alfie's new album 'Reverie Of' is pretty good. If you haven't listened, give it a try.
Woony
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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 . 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 ed 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 .
wotyzoid
+1
Silky Johnson
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Originally posted by rdevito
Art Alfie's new album 'Reverie Of' is pretty good. If you haven't listened, give it a try.
Word.
djshire
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Originally posted by Woony
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 ed 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 .
As someone who produces, I can tell you that anyone can learn to make the over-engineered EDM/Big Room House sound just as much as the lo-fi sound. But I agree that you have to properly mix anything that you make, instead of just being lazy as and tagging it as "analogue" or "lo-fi" or whatever the to hide your job at production.
AlphaStarred
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Originally posted by Woony
Applying just the right amount of saturation etc. to make it 'analogue' and punchy is HARD and takes years of assembling proper engineering knowledge.
Or you can just go analog (if you can afford it) and save yourself all the trouble. I'm sure there are even plenty of good tracks that were made using cheap headphones and no monitors/speakers. Of course it may be harder to do, but it's still feasible.
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Originally posted by djshire
But I agree that you have to properly mix anything that you make, instead of just being lazy as and tagging it as "analogue" or "lo-fi" or whatever the to hide your job at production.
I don't think any tag will hide whether someone's track is or not, whether in sound design or creativity.
Was checking out a few of these tracks to see what constitutes the lo-fi sound. I guess I wasn't expecting it to be so literal. Some of these productions are quite nice but I guess I've gotten so used to hearing crisp, clean productions in this digital download age of high quality MP3's and FLAC's, that I just don't understand why producers want to go that route. It just feels like such an unnecessary step backwards. That said, these are still some pleasant and relaxing grooves, but for me the analogue, dusty noise that is overlaid on it all just detracts from the listening experience for me, rather than adding anything remarkable or unique. That said, I probably will add a few of these to my music collection regardless, it seems that I already have with one track that I thought was deep house but actually fits this sub-genre.
And the whole time I thought my copy of it was a poor quality vinyl rip. Now I know it was engineered to sound this way. :p
