Steve V. wrote:

sphincter wrote:

Steve V. wrote:

Skronk wrote:Unless you record other bands, I don't see the need for going all out. If I want a complete package, I'd buy time in a studio. But that's just me.

Music is a huge part of my life. I'm very very self-critical and rarely "put anything out," but I work a lot on music and literature. I have dozens of notebooks and miles of tape of just me fucking around with songs that will NEVER EVER EVER see the light of day. I've got modest home studio set up, nothing fancy; TEAC tape machines, big Tascam mixer, hardly any outboard gear, decent microphones, none of which cost me over a hundred bucks. I'm learning still, constantly. Familiarizing myself with calibration, etc. etc. These machines are not fancy but they make good quality recordings, which is enough for me and the occasional friends' bands who need a cheap, quick demo for whatever reason.

I spend most of my expendable income on recording equipment, because even if I have a thousand reels of shit I'll never use, that shit will sound good. I want to have good recordings so I buy good equipment when I can afford it. I have aspirations to build a "studio-quality" home studio when I can afford it, but I'll probably end up recording mostly just myself. Because I want good product.

Studios are definitely not as "necessary" as they used to be, because home recording equipment is becoming so cheap and good quality can be had very cheaply. But bullshit hack engineers are the ones who are gonna suffer from that. Engineers have either a NAME (Rock, GGGarth) and/or a TALENT (Bob and the Electrical Staff) when it comes to putting shit on tape. As long as engineers rip those guys' methods off, then we're all okay...right?

Don't take offense if you please, because I like propagandhi, but I don't understand how someone can suck the dick of such an average band then claim that modern music is generally toss?

Average? I think not.

Modern music generally being a toss...well, yeah. But I'm not dead set in that assumption.

sphincter wrote:You guys are so wrong that it gives me actual physical pain!
Music is just as good now as it has ever been, it's just harder to find something more worthwhile because of the sheer amount of music that is being put out.

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I literally can't keep up and can't afford to keep up with the amount of good music coming out, it's insane.