Now we're getting WAY off topic, but I agree completely. And those
finalizers set to yield super-hot CD masters even if they clip the
waveforms in the process make me sick. Screw the fidelity as long as
the CD is louder than everyone else's. Nobody wants to learn microphone
techniques. That's too hard. Much better to take a line in and process
it to death to get a sense of ambience. I do my little films in mono
because even though I've got a decade of doing live music for
television I understand what an undertaking a good stereo mix can be
and I am working hard enough to learn how to be a better filmmaker
without adding the post time of trying to deliver a beautiful stereo
soundfield. My peers will come in with 5.1 mixes, though, and it's
always crap. A good 5.1 mix can be a work of art, but just adding
reverb processing and hard pans to sound effects in post isn't art,
IMO.
That's the thing with technology, though. It can either liberate you
and allow you to be more expressive in your chosen medium or it can
become a crutch and a cheap substitute for actually knowing anything
about the craft. We're at a point right now where a lot of the people
teaching don't even seem sure of the difference because they haven't
had their hands on the newest toys enough to be able to critically
evaluate the results that are being turned in using those technologies.
On Jul 23, 2004, at 12:19 PM, AG Schnozz wrote:
> I blame "Protools" (and variants) in making it possible for
> musicians to become their own recording, mixing and mastering
> engineers. End result 99% of the time is schlock. But when
> crammed into the MP3 format you can't tell just how schlocky the
> schlock really is. (Even my half-deaf musician wife can tell
> when something has been compressed--at least she doesn't pretend
> to know how to run a mixer beyond the basics).
>
> "Protools" (and variants) have so many "plugins" that you don't
> even have to know what it's doing. Ask them to create a wall of
> sound from a single mono sound source without a plugin? Hah!
> Ask them to position the sound WITHOUT using the pan control or
> a WAVES plugin? Hah! Ask them to put "gloss" on a vocal? Huh?
> But, hey, we've got Finalyzers--who cares how they work.
> Somebody had to develop the code though. :)
>
> AG
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