also yea people aren't generally as concerned about gear as much anymore bc computers can do so much. I can tell you a lot of guitar stuff in pop music these days is 100% digital at least in pop and hip hop music. I haven't used an amp in the studio in years and the whole time I was just at the studio in LA the other producer there was just DIing all their stuff and he literally just released a song with dave grohl apparently lol.
Yeah computers have improved so much lately. I still remember when bands would search for weird analogue stuff to make the desired sound, like playing a guitar in part though the speakers of a tape recorder lol.
lol i mean i guess experimentation can be cool. it's just like anything else, it's the shutting yourself off to "only these ways of getting sound are valid" where it becomes :cringe: or thinking that that way is arbitrarily better bc you did some arcane or other shit to get there. I think as long as the music sounds good to people that's all that matters.
lol i just released a song with a popular post hardcore singer and all the guitars are DI'd and using plugins for amps and the drums are completely midi I just sound replaced the kick, snare, and toms with slate drums to make them sound a bit more real. My teenage/early 20s self would be talking so much shit about it haha but it's out and got picked up on New Alt so :shrug-outta-hecks:
Okay thanks for the clarification lol
also yea people aren't generally as concerned about gear as much anymore bc computers can do so much. I can tell you a lot of guitar stuff in pop music these days is 100% digital at least in pop and hip hop music. I haven't used an amp in the studio in years and the whole time I was just at the studio in LA the other producer there was just DIing all their stuff and he literally just released a song with dave grohl apparently lol.
Yeah computers have improved so much lately. I still remember when bands would search for weird analogue stuff to make the desired sound, like playing a guitar in part though the speakers of a tape recorder lol.
lol i mean i guess experimentation can be cool. it's just like anything else, it's the shutting yourself off to "only these ways of getting sound are valid" where it becomes :cringe: or thinking that that way is arbitrarily better bc you did some arcane or other shit to get there. I think as long as the music sounds good to people that's all that matters.
This so much. That's really all that matters in the end. However someone gets there is all up to them
lol i just released a song with a popular post hardcore singer and all the guitars are DI'd and using plugins for amps and the drums are completely midi I just sound replaced the kick, snare, and toms with slate drums to make them sound a bit more real. My teenage/early 20s self would be talking so much shit about it haha but it's out and got picked up on New Alt so :shrug-outta-hecks: