Rick Beato - The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse

[highplainsdem]

[SleeplessinSoCal]

1. As a fan of the Beatles and George Martin,

I take issue with his assessment. The Beatles had minimal technology to work with, yet their music still inspires new fans today. The remastering is minimal.

In the other end of the Spectrum is music prodigy Jacob Collier who is also heavily tech savvy. Excellent BBC doc...

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There is also evidence of a music Renaissance in every branch of pop music. The trIck is getting around the business side and reaching music lovers directly. Talent attracts talent. And there is a lot of talent out there

[drmeow]

4. "The Beatles had minimal technology to work with, yet their music still inspires new fans today."

I was thinking "did the Beatles really use that many mics to record the drums?"

[SleeplessinSoCal]

6. No way.

Especially in 62 & 63. They grew by leaps and bounds. But they grabbed people with their music, voices AND hair immediately! There is a spirit that comes through in their early music because it wasn't perfect.

[drmeow]

7. That's what I as thinking

I mean, didn't some of the famous rooftop performance get included on the Let It Be album? That's certainly not a heavily controlled sound environment.

[Shermann]

2. I mostly agree with him

It's all about having skin in the game. The producers did, the bands did, and the fans did. Now it's all commoditized and all about cost and convenience. That doesn't quite fall to "zero value" though.

It can still be bigger and more real than all that, you just have to get out and see these bands live.

I disagree about amp modelers. A lot of the 70's and 80's guys had basic Marshall sounds that were already homogenized. They mostly relied on trial and error and amps really aren't that hard to record. Some of the players using modelers today are extremely skilled, however. Link:

[msongs]

3. used ta be the rythym supported the song. now its all beat loops and songs are created to fit the rythym. I could

go on but that about covers it. Very little new music is created to fit the song

[DJ Porkchop]

5. It was a solid dissertation and he's a respected professor.

Sadly, it tells us what we already know about AI, the scumbaggery of UMG and Spotify, and the kids not knowing value.
It makes me grateful for the sweet memory of buying vinyl as a teen and getting "turned on" to a band by a friend.
I sold all my CD's and vinyl and I miss 'em. Put it all up on the cloud, never to really own it again. I just rent.