"Do the public care?"
No
"Do they know bad mixing/mastering when they hear it?"
No
"Maybe they do, but they don't know the geek lingo to put it into words. What do you think?"
No
Even if they did, they'd get the lingo wrong. OK on this one I'm projecting (I never get the lingo right. Ever. I never get lingo.)
I think the "democratization" of IP (despite blockchain, what's been free will be hard to charge for again) has good and bad (healthy and unhealthy) impact on what came from before, and survives now.
(Asymptotically approaching nobody) Nobody will pay for music. They want an experience, and it can be readily had for free. Even if it's just the experience of claiming to have "consciousness" absent the "contents of consciousness" (which is utter contradictory nonsense) - that experience of "profundity" is meaningful in and of itself to conscious life.
After all, democracy is nothing more than the pathetic show of a pack of wolves and a population of sheep in which the wolves pretend to listen to the myriad viewpoints of the sheep, and pretend to care as they eat a lamb in front of everyone.
How much do the general public actually care about music production quality?
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- KVRAF
- 1724 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from betwixt
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- KVRAF
- 5851 posts since 9 Jul, 2002 from Helsinki
Can, and nothing else will. It's not something you can imagine or deduct before the experience, it's fully dependent on the sensory exposure.kelldammit wrote:So fidelity can change the experience somewhat.
I sometimes envy everyone who has not produced any music. They don't care about metallic highs, if the bass on the soundsystem is boomy, or how tacky that sampled 909 clash sounds when cut off in that choke group or be bothered by the laziness of using a C-major supersaw preset arp for the intro. They just enjoy the music without analysing the soul out of it.
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- KVRAF
- 18092 posts since 24 May, 2009 from A galaxy, far far away
I'd agree, with the exception of sibilance/piercing highs. Sounds that actually cause such discomfort will ruin anyone's experience of music.jon wrote:I sometimes envy everyone who has not produced any music. They don't care about metallic highs, if the bass on the soundsystem is boomy, or how tacky that sampled 909 clash sounds when cut off in that choke group or be bothered by the laziness of using a C-major supersaw preset arp for the intro. They just enjoy the music without analysing the soul out of it.
