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Auto tune, backtracked lead vocals

So, digital kill great music and we should go back to analog.

11:18 It is officially your fault why I’m going around yelling note, note, space! 😂 this is a way better version of duck duck goose 🪿!

Another point: the death of medium-budget cinema. Remember in the 80's and 90's, an unusual song could become famous if it was featured in a movie (e.g. Don't Worry Be Happy in Cocktail, Eye of the Tiger in Rocky III). But the movies were also more variegated, with scenes that required a wider range of songs. Now the only movies that everyone sees are these "epic" effects-based movies that all have the same soundtrack, just horns blaring as loud as possible to make the movie feel more epic.

Brilliant video

From the 60s until now the biggest publishing companies invested lots of money to promote pop music and other genres too. Songs were used for manipulating the young generation. They don't do it anymore, they've found out other things to manipulate people. Music industry is cr..p because talent and quality does not matter anymore. Music and entertainment industry is used for moneylaundering and drug trafficing. Pop music is bad but not because of how the microphone is situated in the studio.

I really appreciate your take on this topic. I’m a 70s baby born in the 80s, so I love the arrangements, musicianship and sound of music that was recorded the Old School way. I use those skills and techniques in my recordings today, and try my best to channel what would have been done in those classic eras of recordings.

This video has so much value for a young(20yo) musician like me. I have an obsession with old songs from the 70s(pinkf floyd, led zeppelin, deep purple etc.) and me and my band really dont like the "brickwalled" music that is produced today. We try to blend tactics by recording with mic'd up amps, drums and pianos but also using a click track, and quantizing so that everything is in time so it would be easier for the producer to do his work lining up tracks, i might need to reconsider that due to the fact that i want to give an authentic feel that my band certainly has in regarding to dynamics AWSOME VIDEO YOU GOT YOURSELF A SUBSCRIBER😁

Да, музыка стала слишком «цифровой». Я например отдельные инструменты часто прогоняю через магнитную ленту (настоящую). Она как бы оживляет цифровой звук придавая шумы, искажения, чуть иную АЧХ и оживляет стерео-базу (даже если это будет моно-синтезатор).

Okay, a couple things. One thing that drives me up a FREAKING wall is our tendency to put music in a “subjective” bin. I’m sorry I have to push back a little. I understand you may want to watch Hamlet one day and a Steven Seagal movie the next. But I do believe like any discipline, there is such a thing as something being objectively bad. We know that A440 equal temperament is a compromise, but it can sound FLAWLESS in the right hands. If I play what I call great music around my son? I hear his pitch recognition improve. When I play a lot of automated, autotuned music off of the radio? It becomes more difficult for him. Music is like food. Fuel the ears? Your body has memory. It doesn’t mean I can’t listen to hip hop. It just means treat it like candy. It’s addictive and it will rot your teeth. Eat it sparingly.

Try taking an album that has been remastered over and over and comparing them to each other. I'm curious about this. Could you do this? Unfortunately I have few copies of different versions of the same album anymore, but I used to have an extensive AC/DC collection: 8-track, records, cassette tapes, and CD's (some of which were multiple because of remastering or import releases from other countries) I had 4 versions of Back In Black, 4 of Dirty Deeds, and 3 of Let There Be Rock...just in CD format all with there differences. It's amazing how different each was. The strangest difference was the CD's, as you would think that there would be little difference...I mean, why would there be? Maybe if say, the band, wanted to have some stuff that may have been previously edited out put back in...or maybe add bass or punch to the bass drum or whatever the case may be...that makes sense...but there are significant differences. Dirty Deeds, from the namesake album, has a remastered version where the vocals have some parts added toward the end of the song, which threw me off when I first heard it. I never thought to check the eq metering. Like I said though...I unfortunately lost all my collection in a sad unfortunate accident. The years it took me, my entire life, not to mention the money involved...I just don't have it in me to start to re-collect it all again. It was quite significant. I kinda feel like it should be like going to a chain restaurant...you know the menu, and because it's a chain, you can expect to have what you had in Kansas to taste, look, and smell the same as when you get it in Ohio. Now I get there could be some small variances, some due to demographic preferences, but I would expect that to more reflect the menu itself, say the list of offered food. But if the burger you got at one is on the menu of the other, they should be pretty much indistinguishable. I would expect the same for say...the Back In Black album. Sure I may expect that the song order might change, even have maybe a song or two on the Australian album that didn't make it to the U.S. album, as they were known to do sometimes. But there are some drastic changes.

Molt encertat, moltes gràcies. 100% agree, thanks

do you think part of it is an education thing? youtube is full of bad advice and by bad i dont mean incorrect necessarily, more like... 427 guys saying "you HAVE to set your tempo at 120 and you HAVE to play in this or that key and you HAVE to use these plug ins, and these samples to make a 'hit' song or you wont have one ever" and everyone is just watching the same garbage over and over and over trying to mimic instead of creating something for themselves. (i see this a lot with students i teach that just mimic but dont find their own voice)

Hello sir will it be possible for you to take some time out of your busy schedule and review some of my production and give some tips on how to improve on production. Ive been producing now for almost 2 years have completed more than 50 projects, i don't have any mentor other than youtube. Worked mostly on electronic music. 🙏 I can share my SoundCloud page if you will be able to take some time out. Thank you for creating helpful content.

Another reason is "templating". There are hundreds of songs featuring the same chord progression of famous songs. Most stuff you ever hear on the radio is template stuff.

I'm 28, and I've always been attracted by analog gear, my home studio is full analog except the PC I use for recording... And I'm glad I'm ignorant about all these "modern production" stuffs, melodyne, copy and paste stuff etc etc... I just do it the "old school" way naturally, because copying and pasting, correcting stuffs to absolute perfection is not the conception I have of making music... And that's why people who will (hopefully) come to my studio will do something unique!

Reminds me of the Japanese philosophy Wabi-Sabi; the beauty is in the imperfections 💚🎶

Thankyou for opening my eyes. It explains why iv gone off modern music. Ill never record anything again at 120 bpm lmao 😂

Ngl saying all music nowadays sounds similar and saying you can’t differentiate between artists may reflect on your listening choices more than anything, there is more variation out there than ever

Each era has had its own distinct, telltale sounds. Like gated reverb on drums in the 80s.

One thing I’ve always done is when playing drum parts Play through the whole song. DONT copy and paste sections. That’s what gives it more of a “real feel”

There is no music today, it's all crap. The best music is behind us. The music my generation and the one before me created in the 60s 70s and 80s. The 90s for music were disastrous. So just be happy you have all that beautiful music we have gifted you. ❤

I agree with what you're saying in this video. These things you mentioned are constantly scoffed at when I used to talk about the same stuff with other producers... lol thanks for making this. Hopefully it helps people to make more organic/unique sounding songs.

You can only sample music for so long before it all starts to sound the same 🤷🏼‍♂️

We're in the Template Age, especially with LLM being available freely. This is seen in almost all domains and will continue to excess.

I'm making music in my home with little equipment (an interface and some mics) and I work recording everything in one take (the amps (my pedalboard is analogue too), the acoustic instruments, voice etc) and without correcting pitch or using click track

I can't stand the way drums are tracked now. Take me back to 1981 and the self titled Micheal Schenker Group album MSG. This is how to record and produce an album. The mics were properly placed and every sound recorded on all instruments.

Great perspectives. I think you nailed it.

Microwave music, esp pop. Drag and drop no talent needed “sample packs” has everybody using the same sounds. It’s terrible Vocals mixed the same, mass produced shit

So true so true PEACE!!!❤

This is gold mine. One question tho: How do you suggest one learns to hear frequencies that need to be EQed? Or what do you suggest to train your ears to hear harsh frequencies for example

it’s bland and too clean and safe

Bravo! 👏 This is brilliant and insightful content. I feel smarter and inspired. I would love a couple of 1-on-1 coaching sessions for my personal home studio for tracking my drums. If this is possible, how do I get in touch with you?

Thx man! Great inspiration! I began to collect different flutes. I record them and manipulate them with my plugins to integrate them into my productions: I do the same with percussion. This nuances in timing and sound add live to my productions and make them unique.

Such a pleasure to watch you guys talk. I love listening to your stories. And seeing you both react with each other is awesome! 😊 Have a good day!

The arguments and views expressed in this video are really good. I saw R. Beato's video and thought that he was glorifying the past. Something like: "everything was better in the past". And I often thought to myself during the video that I completely disagree with him. Billy Hume sums it up perfectly here. While I thought R. Beato's video was negative, I find B. Hume's approach much more positive and also more respectful towards today's artists. Thank you for making the video!

I appreciate songs over 6 mins long because I'm an old fart.

I'm old enough to know what you're talking about. About putting life into music with slight imperfections.

You can be Beethoven or Rossini....Bach or Handel...Although they still wrote for both markets...ie artistic and commercial when needed...But Beethoven and Bach tended towards the artistic. Nothing new under the sun. It's the way human nature is.

So happy I stumble on to your channel...great content.

Huh. I hadn't realized bands were doing the copy/paste thing for choruses etc. Although tbh I don't have much *recent* rock in my collection But the general sameness that imparts versus the older one-take-to-make recording process def explains a lot May also be why I find my own more recent tracks more enjoyable to listen to than my old stuff. Used all VSTs back in the day and that was guaranteed sameness across the whole mix unless I added a lot of FX and stuff Now using analog gear with controllable analog behavior, and recording each part as one long take for the whole song leaves in all the variations from Osc Slop/ Random Pitch Drift modulation etc, so no one part of the song is ever exactly the same as the rest, and I guess even if the arrangement of the chorus sections are functionally the same, the subtle variations keep everything dynamic General listener responses have improved alongside that Interesting

Really like your new hairstyle Rick.

No artist has personality anymore.

Deaf Magnetic. The ULTIMATE in Clipping Death. Rick Rubin was the 5 star general of the loudness war. That guy screwed Slayer for a decade and never stopped. Cash, Metallica are the top two that were stomped on so hard my grandkids felt it. And I dont even have kids!

Torallyvwith you on that. Sadly same goes to movie soundtracks.

A ja cały czas jak coś zrobiłem, porównywałem do tych najbardziej znanych producentów do ich utworów i strasznie były odmiennie, teraz po odsłuchaniu tego materiału, stwierdzam że bardzo dobrze ze moje utwory są inne i to mnie motywuje do dalszego tworzenia Muzyki ❤ Dziękuję, Thank You Billy ❤

really inspiring! thank you !

So much trueness

definitely agree that music is different now esp coz of DAW syndrome... everythings on the grid and loop based. but all new music sounds the same? no. absolutely not. the flip to the staleness that can come with digital production is the potential for unprecedented variety and imagination. if all the new music you hear sounds the same thats on you, dunno what to tell you. been to a record store recently? had someone 30 years younger than you that you never met recommend a song to you recently? the world is so fucked right now but the amount of incredible, creative, and diverse music being created is one of the things that makes life worth living. i am not a young person btw and i was an acolyte of the music of the sixties while also loving everything that has come after it. you're not wrong at all but youre also so unbelievably wrong its insane.

Thanks for explaining to me why I can't listen to new songs anymore. Always said they are so boring and sound the same.