You talking about about usb mics, mixing where the beat is louder than the words, and songs that fade into each other?

What do you mean?

Im not saying for the audience to listen to these tapes.

Im saying that artists, producers and/or engineers might want to utilize some of the characteristics of "mixtape sound" to add some uniqueness along with nostalgia to otherwise sterile soundscape, like how we do with Vinyl & Casette characteristics already.

Its doesnt matter if the general audience has access or not. Just like how most dont have access nor even heard a true Vinyl or casette. The "feeling" is still utilized tho.

how to achieve the mixtape sound

1. add a lot of compression
2. don't bother with mixing and mastering that's for pussies
3. export files as .mp3
4. upload on DatPiff
5. go Diamond on DatPiff

S*** would be in 240p

we need to bring back rapping on xbox mics

Yup. It sucks, but also makes sense from the business sense.

Its easier on their algorithm, & their cloud storage (file size wise) while getting people used to a way of thing sound to keep them shuffling.

If one song is too high & one song is too low out of 5 songs a person is listening too, then it might push them away. By homogenizing, theyre now more similar, thus easier background noise & listening.

Thats one of the more simpler examples n explanations.

Thats why with some albums today that still sell music, their CD, digital/bandcamp or Vinyl purchase will more than likely sound different compared to their streaming. Even if a bit.

Some are more dramatic than others.

It has its postives & negatives.

Tape is classic

tyler already has DJ Drama yelling over his albums like its Dreamchasers.

Savage Mode 2 kind of gives off the mixtape vibe with the cover and narration

This doesnt make sense.

None of them were done for style point originally. Casettes & vinyls sounded like how they sound n their quirks because of the average audio tools plus format.

No duh in its original conception its done the way it is because thats just how it was.

It later becomes a thing for style, aesthetic & an option.

unless you’re talking about the actual recording quality then idk wtf you mean

oh i get you

i guess that could be worth a shot. dont see any new gen artists pulling it off simply because they arent really project focused in the first place

oh yeah it's night and day with vinyl, cd, and streaming...at least for me. i never knew that it was purposeful from the streaming service side to deliberately flatten out the sound just for algorithms though. i shouldn't be surprised though considering the climate

the “mixtape sound” is just exporting the file as 192kbps mp3

you can change your settings to make all your music sound like that

it’s not like vinyl/cassette sounds where there was something notable you could hear in the audio, this is just a loss of quality & a lack of high frequencies

So s*** mixing and cheap mics is what you're talking about ?

Oh this kinda true i didnt even think of that album

I was thinking in like 5 years or a bit more type thing but it might be starting already

Duflocka DaRant too

Honestly this would be interesting lmao but I could see artists from that era putting together a tape with that style in mind

I remember Dilla and Madlib recorded Champion Sound on some 2-track type s***

“We didn’t go in the studio, lay a version, then track it down,” Dilla told Dust Busters. “It was all straight off of CD, overdubbin’, straight mixtape s***. Raw, raw. Everything you hear is straight two tracks and overdub.”

medium.com/micro-chop/off-of-cd-overdubbin-straight-mixtape-shit-the-story-of-champion-sound-fc66629fe713

I could see rappers from the 2010s saying they rented a house or stayed at a hotel and recorded an album straight off the laptop like “back in the day” 😂

if you just mean having a mixtape DJ, that’s already coming back

This facts tbh

Being at a party and this s*** came on was a scary sight

S/o the Focusrite bundle 😔🤘

WTH are you talking about?

The mixtape sound comes from the songs being recorded and mixed properly for the most part but if theres a DJ on there when they send it in to add their tags and rewinds they over compress the song to make it sound like it’s in the song instead of just added afterwards, gluing it together is what the engineers call it. Radio uses this same method

Mixtapes with no DJ sound cleaner if you haven’t noticed

I was thinking of that too

old folks rant and rave about how the 8-track is so nostalgic, but even they admit that it sounds like s***. at least cassettes and vinyl have a distinct sound to where they actually sound good