Related, and if your perspective on this is that it used to be better, we were just less picky about production in the past. When you only had your board EQ and maybe one or two outboards and you were lucky to have more than one compressor, you just recorded stuff and did the best that you could with what you had.mumpcake wrote: Sun Jun 27, 2021 3:13 am Twenty years ago was much more productive for me. This probably has less to do with a more minimal setup and more to do with having more time and energy and fewer distractions.
Also, even though you might have had instruments with recall, often the setup for a track itself did not, so you really couldn't work on much else until you wrapped it all up.
How many pages of wasted ink are on KVR about details of mastering for records that few are going to hear, and let's be honest, nobody is going to buy? There's an entire industry setup to sell you some leveling for every bit of nonsense that you're going to upload online. So much anxiety over nothing really.
