This article is a steaming pile of bullshit, and honestly thats being too nice about it.
Pop Matters – How Pro Tools Is Destroying Music
“Computer programs are killing the old recording studios, and the engineering knowhow once harnessed there is disappearing.” - Scott Oranburg
Read the comments by RWC, I can’t say it any better than him.
| “With the human touch inherent in any performance autocorrected digitally, we lose much of the element that gives music its emotive contours. Sometimes, playing slightly behind the beat or slightly below the correct pitch is what makes a piece inspiring” |
“I am not sure about how anyone else works, but the only time I break out such tools is when it is such a joke, that it has absolutely no chance of not being LAUGHED AT to begin with. This brings total trash into the realm of mediocre.”
“I, and most other competent people, aren’t going to snap to grid or Melodyne an amazing fucking song just because the chorus is slightly faster than the verse.” - RWC
This is the best time to be making music, you don’t need to worry about what the label wants, just make good music and do whatever it takes to do it. Sure, budgets are lower, a lot lower these days, but its just less money for artists to waste on extravagance in the studio.
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Good post! Thanks for including that succinct comment by RWC. If I could post that on my door without getting fired, I would…
haha, totally.
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Protools Is Killing Music…
Cheap recording is to music what cheap food is to an Ethiopian child….
I’m so glad you wrote this… that pop matters article is just completely wrong. they make some valid points about the music that tends to comprise the top 40, but who cares about that?
people who ACUTALLY LIKE MUSIC aren’t going to listen to that crap anyway