Quality Dynamic Range On Your Gear vs. That Sound From a CD

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junplugged

Taking the slow road
Ever notice when you record a track on your gear, example, acoustic guitar. Then play it back and it sounds awesome, crisp, clear, full, large dynamic range, very wide eq from a bassy low with midrange way up to high highs, sounds live and in-your-face, then hear a CD or Radio or LP and hear a small sound that sounds like low quality or a very limited eq range and wonder what's up with that? Your track doens't sound like a CD but sounds awesome?

Then wonder, ok, do I squash and shelf it on both sides and make it sound radio-like so people relate to it b/c it sounds like a 'released' sound, or keep it full and odd sounding?
 
forget this crap I posted, I kind of wrote it and realized it's coming from the wrong perspective.

a zillion different pro's could give me advice on this issue and it wouldn't make a dif.

I'm done w/ working my butt off for some unattainable goal of sounding like any of my favorite CD's. It ain't gonna happen.

However, I won't give up in using the crap gear I do have to make it all sound as good as I can get it and learn some stuff in the process.

I guess I had a thing happen to me today and I got really down about it, but I'm back up now and had some mild revelations. I got the hell away from it all, went out to the beach and dumped some junk about it on the girlfriend. I was bitching about how I had click noise on my punches and I went on and on and on....

So this is the result. Just keep on pluggin and do the best w/ what I have and do not over-spend and learn and save for recording a real master of my best material and just use my home studio to demo what I have, The End.
 
Agreed...
Nobody said you had to sound like everyone else. If you like and your listning friends like it...then so be it ;)
 
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