A well explained topic of what is wrong with modern recording, creating & production.

 

I enjoyed that. I didn't find it so much saying that modern recording is bad, as possibly like you? - I also grew up in the analog period... So I felt he was saying before you reach for the group plugin, group quantize or any effect that is going to inflict a noticeable change or shift in a part or all the music, focus on the vibe/groove/feel and don't lose that as a priority.
As for more modern techniques - It is a different period, approach, style and set of standards and only speaking for myself, I do not think in some instances they can be compared.

 

Not that it is "bad" but, that there are misconceptions about audio/music production in the currents era.

 

He previously did another video that was a very similar topic, unless this is a repost or updated version for whatever reason. Once you remove the idea of trying to judge one process as superior to the other, as suggested by the video title; it's rather difficult to argue with the individual points he makes about why it is inherently different. He nails it about "prosumer" gear at 4 minutes in, but it also minimizes the point that there is still an entire boutique pro audio gear market of mostly smaller manufacturers making exceptionally high quality stuff.

I think he really gets his point across where he hits upon the lower or completely removed monetary risk involved with releasing anything. People are currently opening their eyes to it because of AI, but the reality is we as music listeners, have been inundated with junk for a long time already. There used to be others' with a financial stake making decisions that prevented big budget productions of junk. It was all still out there, we just never heard most of it. Now we get 60,000 uploads per day of it.

 

The guy actually talks a lot of sense.

However all music today doesn't sound the same, you could make the same argument about 60's mono recordings having a similar sound, from similar instruments to similar hardware etc, they all contribute to a sameish sound.

I do quantise most of what i play in cos i'm not a virtuoso muso.

There's also nowt wrong with drums etc being bang on the beat, been doing it so long, I did for a while have a problem with played music sounding sloppy i'm ok with it now though.

Music reflects the society it emanates from, the 60's was a time of positive renewal, today is space age tech, boldly moving onwards and upwards at increasing velocity to an uncertain future, the great music of today reflects that admirably, older folk can find futuristic music and concepts baffling, the generation gap, but it needn't be like that, tired old minds well settled in their own ways could easily adapt if the will was there, but they ceased listening decades ago and now only hear NOISE.

Music today is no better or worse than it ever was, it's just different, but the vast majority of teenage listeners, yesterday and today, don't continue to listen to new music after a certain age, then they mostly either listen to stuff from their youth or not at all.

Years ago I had a yamaha toy sized mini sampler so i sampled Oh Well and itchycoo park, before it became fashionable, still got it somwhere, WOW, it sounded amazin, thick rich and powerful, possibly 12 bit sample no more than 16, only a split second of each but you could recognise the source, so didn't pursue it. Will one day though.

 

Dunno, folks have access to those same studios, gear, engineers and musicians and still what they make makes no difference, it's not going to make superficial pop they do any deeper. Seems all these focus on Billboard Top 100 and people's expectations to be served music just from mainstream sources.

There's still great music made by musicians, recorded by engineers in studios and all over the world, plenty of everything everywhere in the world, strong alternative scenes, tons of you making great music listened by few people, there's great music out there, public is just brainwashed into consuming whatever is trendy and these folks are just stuck in that same loop, they just get involved in making most superficial music for masses all their life's, something that is approved by the few labels and have financial backing, watered down out of any substance.