so it's not the glue then, lol

cause SRS was some s***

every women born under the age of 1993 just wants to mix and master ableton files with their audio technica m50xs and eat hot chips

mastering is important but not the most important

It’s been plenty of s***ty mixing bad quality throughout all genres where songs still have been hits

n lie 🤓

yeah, I know. I could master my own songs but I would never fully mix my own songs because mixing is MUCH harder (to me)

rt!

Wanted to say Chris Athens is my favorite mastering engineer

mixing requires actual skill and can make or break the song, not mastering

explain why what i wrote is wrong

Because if you have a good mix and a bad s***ty ass master, it'll f*** up the final product. If mastering took no skill, mix engineers wouldn't be so selective on who they send their s*** too. Not to discredit the mix engineers but to say mastering takes no skill is just wrong

I mean for professional release yes it does require skill, but not for lo-fi release. In fact most lo-fi release aren't mastered well but you can still recognise its greatness (musically). Not the same with bad mixing

what i'm saying is that mixing has a DIRECT effect and impact on the music; mastering is just the coating and polishing

It depends because Wu Tang 36 Chambers is both mixed and mastered pretty well while not sacrificing it's lofi sound. Mixing just like mastering is both contextual and even in lofi music there can be bad mixing and mastering it's just that there is a cushion of excuse of being for "aesthetic".

Underground 90s Memphis rap out now

just a name lol

Ain't even that it defies sound quality, great songwriters can use poor sound quality to their artistic advantage

the weird obsession with sound quality and "perfection" is what gave us years of soulless music in the first place. sound quality is de facto a technological achievement not an artistic one

here's somewhat of a boomer take that makes a lot of sense actually

Nothing butfax

think of an album that had the best producers and engineers that still sounded bad (musically)...

youtube.com/watch?v=qN23OSUhsRE

that's why 90s was PEAK music