bblackwood wrote on Thu, 22 April 2004 09:36 |
Sadly, it's pretty accurate. That Ricky Martin track is how most modern releases look today (and they sound like it).
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Adding insult to injury, that record was lauded for a time as 'validating' ProTools as a hitmaker ... 'Loca' was supposedly the first #1 single from PT.
Sure it would be nice if a hit or 3 a year was not hot, but even that will probably come from the bottom up, us, and not the top down.
Buena Vista and Wrecking Ball were not hot, not rock or pop either.
After 3-4 years of hacking around with bad monitoring and half-baked ideas, in the last 8 months I'm finally good enough at this to master hot-not-too-hot music that sounds damn good ...
and I have the words to educate anyone who will listen that the loudness extreme will ruin their record for timelessness, with ambition of the now.
Thanks in no small way to y'all and this forum something I believe in (timeless music) is now a part of the vocabulary of a specific role (mastering).
If we all educate, in whatever sphere we can, it will make a difference over time. I still believe in democracy that way.