Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
which is it man? Can't be both.. FAST LEARNER THO. .......... Kinda slow so bear with me. lol.
Welcome to the board ....... there's lotsa help here.
which is it man? Can't be both.. FAST LEARNER THO. .......... Kinda slow so bear with me. lol.
Great thread. I find it hard to deal with my band mates who will take any take we do because they "don't want to have to play that again!"
LOL...I`m hip...I know for sure my recording quality has improved atleast some since the old days of using one of these..for real..LOL
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LOL...I`m hip...I know for sure my recording quality has improved atleast some since the old days of using one of these..for real..LOL
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What you mostly need isn't a pedantically accurate and objective view of your abilities, it's the opposite - a wildly optimistic and joyously erratically Subjective view.
The world is unlikely to resist the temptation to tell you when you suck.
I disagree with you, but if a blithe state of joy and optimism is the end to which you strive, you're doing it right.
If you have a tin ear, none of this is going to help you turn around a decent product.
If you don't have an ear for pitch, and your instruments are out of tune with themselves and other instruments, your recordings will suffer.
If you are a "producer", and don't have a knack for arrangement, or understand how to incorporate space and silence into an piece, your client's recordings will suffer.
If you are a musician in a band, and you lack the ability to transpose chords, use different inversions, or envision and arrange your parts as pieces of an ensemble, your recordings will suffer.
Before you spend a fortune on things that will expose and highlight deficiencies in your technique and approach, work on identifying deficiencies in your technique and approach. That is, put the horse in front of the cart.
if you honestly can't find anything wrong with your own work, you're not listening.
There is such a wide variety of "ability" out there....and some with the best are still not able to do much with it, and some with not-so-good ability ARE able to do something with it.
Don't ever give up 'cuz someone tells you that you suck...especially on the Internet.
It's not that I disagree with the need to honestly evaluate ones efforts
It's the glass half full approach compared to the glass half empty one. It's the same approach that says you'll get better results by rewarding the positive in a student than focusing too much on what they get wrong.
Nothing wrong with any of the underlying ideas - I’d agree with them all - it's just that the delivery that seems to concentrate overly on the negative side. They're all about possible pitfalls rather than solutions. If you're a fan of what they call "deficit learning" - or concentrating on what you're getting wrong and what you don't know - then that's not an unusual approach. But I prefer to put forward a different view.
So I'd turn the advice around. Take the last one - "If you honestly can't find anything wrong with your own work, you're not listening". Geez, that's a pretty depressing welcome to a newcomer isn't it? Are newbies really that cocky that we think our early efforts are flawless? And should it matter to others if we do?
When I play the guitar I listen the most attentively to the good notes, not the bad ones, because it's the successes that I want to entrench not the mistakes. I don't pretend the bad notes aren't there but they don't get the focus that the good ones do.
I'd also be happy to recommend putting the horse wherever you darn well please - ride it backwards up and down the street at two in the morning if you feel like it - this is about music not accountancy.
Sometimes it's a good thing to turn off the reality meter for a while, and fool yourself into aiming higher than you might otherwise have done.
I'm sorry you don't like my advice, and ask that you try to take it for what it is.
Another maxim would be to start off with simple gear & a simple arrangement of a simple piece. When that's nailed it would be time to progress.