quoted 5 lines Imagine a track where there was some very smooth silky pad that clipped>Imagine a track where there was some very smooth silky pad that clipped
>a bit as it peaked. If it doesn't relate to anything else going on in
>the track, and there's no exploitation of the aural contrast between
>smoothness and the harsh clipping, then you can make a fair guess that
>it was just overlooked.
No I can't. As long as there's the possibility that the texture was
designed exactly how it was laid down, there's no assumption to be made
about why it sounds the way it does.
quoted 5 lines I suppose that doing my own recording makes me less tolerant of sounds that>I suppose that doing my own recording makes me less tolerant of sounds that
>I would regard as errors in my own stuff. On the other hand, it's hard to
>dispense with one's own listening experience when forming value judgements
>about what sounds good or bad. If a track has a gritty or choppy feel,
>great. If it's meant to be smooth, then why not polish it?
You're confusing your music-making predilections with your listening
experience, which tends to influence musicians' descriptions of music that
they themselves didn't make. Questions of intent are a mind-game to no
end, and why should anyone care whether you would make the same choices if
you were the composer? You yourself say its a matter of intolerance.
-eric
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