Why do all songs on the radio sound the same?

[chewbacaface]

Fair enough! I will stand by my assertion that, obvious opinions aside, the statements I made about the purpose of radio is 100% fact. As for the implied quality (or lack thereof) of certain genres of music, and of my stereotypical view of the casual listener; those are somewhat more difficult to quantify

I've even heard that there are certain tempos that fall in line with the natural tempo of the beating heart which is why older folks tend to like slower music and yonger kids faster stuff. Again, this aligns with what one is immediately familiar and comfortable with even at a natural level.

I'm not like into crystals or potions or anything like that but this sort of makes sense given that you are so attached to the womb for 9 months and a beating heart is about all that you hear.

 

[BrentDomann]

I know this thread is old, but I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned replacing drum recordings with samples. With software providing samples that might be "perfect", every engineer that wants to get 'that sound' can do so for a few hundred bucks and a couple of mouse clicks.

Voila. Every snare sounds the same. Because it's the same freaking snare!

 

[Bristol Posse]

Well I just played Ice T's 99 Reasons, Pachelbels Canon, and Cold Play something or other through an ART Pro VLA II on Very heavy compression setting and guess what, none of them sounded even remotely simillar (What a shocker ), Sure they all had a lot of mid range but so what. No amount of compression will make a rapper sound like a sustained violin or Chris Martin's falseto sound like Ice T's Gansta Rap

So I call bullshit on that argument unless the music being compressed was extremely simillar before hitting the compressor

or maybe the Art Pro VLA isn't high end enough to magically make every piece of music magically sound the same as the current trend of the week, whatever that trend may have been in May 2009

I'll have to check it out next time I fire up the Delorean

 

[witzendoz]

I'm real good and sick of this overly slick trash they're pumping out these says..I mean make it sound nice but geez...we need some grit...some feeling maybe?

recordist87 is spamming the forum, resurrecting old threads and being a general nuisance. If it's not intentional then stop doing it, if it's to push your advertising links then go away.