quoted 4 lines But seriously, studying other people's production
> But seriously, studying other people's production
> technique too closely is a bit silly, you might end
> up
> sounding like a cheap copy.
i don't really think that's good advice.
i make music and if poked and prodded i might even
suggest that it's good music which doesn't necessarily
sound derived from anything especially noticeable,
other than nicking some timbaland style beats here
and there,, but a lot of my inspiration comes from
actually trying to reproduce or recontextualize
various
parts of other songs which i love... they never come
out sounding like the originals but hopefully that
ineffable quality that i loved about the music that
inspired me remains.
and as far as wondering about the set up your favorite
laptop superstar uses, you've gotta find out somehow
how you can make the sounds you want to make.
it's sort of like how people in the early-mid-nineties
started off covering nirvana or some such thing when
they learned how to play guitar... covering a song
with
software is a much different affair, and a bit of a
sisyphean task if you ask me (at least, if you're
talking about covering something like squarepusher
anyway [i'm working on a cover of bowie's "we are the
dead", anybody else love that song?])... so if you can
approximate someone's set up, you make things and if
they sound like the artist you like, you know you're
doing something right. from there you learn all kinds
of production bits bleeps and blops and before you
know
it you too can be a glitch/minimal techno/breakcore/
ragga-jungle/tech-house supastar.
gregory
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