I haven't heard a modern recording I thought was anyways half decent unless it was recorded in an old manner. I think underground rock and indie rock is some of the shittiest around. I think it dies just about the time kids started using computers to record and not 4-tracks.Doog wrote:
And yeah, I'd agree with you on the Pro Tools front, I hate the idea of using computers to make up for the lack or something.
I hate the Audio Quality of almost all modern music. I think Ipods, Mp3's and listening to music on Computer Speakers are all shit.
I am not a technolgy phobe but I also don't think more is better. The Golden age of recording for me is the mid 40's to the early 70's and it was filled with tons of technological advances but a lot of good sounding ones.
Protools and punching things in and out and getting things to correct tempo and pitch is probably a God send for the working band but does it make them better? Almost all my favorite recordings are very basic, tight band playing in a room type sound. That's what i like, I can't help it or convince I like something else just cause it new. New means nothing to me, i don't judge music by it's Newnes which a lot of people do. people want the latest thing, they want to be part of a scene or a happening. To me that has nothing to with music and puts me off. For me great music is timeless and is great forever, i can listen to Nina Simone and the quality of her voice and the recording of her band is captured in a way that will be great forever and it makes no difference if I was listening to it in 1965 or 2005.
