How computers ruined rock music

[tallcoolone]

For every gridded, pitch corrected, and edited as hell radio friendly hit that is assembled a band/musician with a shoe string budget is able to afford the ability to put their songs together for a reasonable sounding demo / album and get them up on the internet for anyone in the world to listen to or purchase directly from that musician/band.

Sure, it has its downsides but shit... I’ll gladly have cookie cutter radio music out there that I’ll never listen to or purchase to have the ability to hear bands that I’d never have had the chance to hear

Yup

 

[aftec]

Computers killed rock music because people can fix their sheet, and people who would never ever let close to a studio can release some fake sheet.

 

[Speeddemon]

a whole bunch of the mentioned causes/issues/problems are reasons why in my (home)studio,
-there's no PC
-I don't do copy & paste verses or choruses.
-editing as a whole is minimized to cut off noise trails of idle tracks, clean up intro/outros, etc.

Basically, if you can't play your part in 1 go in a studio, why would you be able to do it on stage? Ergo, you have no business being on a stage unless you can manage to finish your song's part without major fuck-ups. What good is, say a drummer that can play 1 verse perfect, and the next 3 so-so? Sure, you can copy and paste the perfect one...and then what...the guy gets up on stage, performs, does a shitty job for 3/4th of the song and people can point 'see, they just fixed it in the studio'.
Look, I'm not talking about multi-harmonied vocal or guitar parts, but just your basic rhythm 'foundation tracks'.


(for those actually interested, I record via an A&H GS-R24 analog/digital desk into an Alesis HD24XR (same A/D converters as RADAR) with a nice set of outboard dynamic processors and effects)

 

[crwnedblasphemy]

a whole bunch of the mentioned causes/issues/problems are reasons why in my (home)studio,
-there's no PC
-I don't do copy & paste verses or choruses.
-editing as a whole is minimized to cut off noise trails of idle tracks, clean up intro/outros, etc.

Basically, if you can't play your part in 1 go in a studio, why would you be able to do it on stage? Ergo, you have no business being on a stage unless you can manage to finish your song's part without major fuck-ups. What good is, say a drummer that can play 1 verse perfect, and the next 3 so-so? Sure, you can copy and paste the perfect one...and then what...the guy gets up on stage, performs, does a shitty job for 3/4th of the song and people can point 'see, they just fixed it in the studio'.
Look, I'm not talking about multi-harmonied vocal or guitar parts, but just your basic rhythm 'foundation tracks'.


(for those actually interested, I record via an A&H GS-R24 analog/digital desk into an Alesis HD24XR (same A/D converters as RADAR) with a nice set of outboard dynamic processors and effects)

Just like a chick with fake eyelashes, and makeup...haha

 

[Speeddemon]

Just like a chick with fake eyelashes, and makeup...haha

Not sure if that analogy is fully accurate. Typically a bit of makeup can be used to 'enhance'...which is what happens all the time in a studio with music...we're not talking about polishing an unsalvageable turd, which would be the case with musicians that can't play their own songs right.

Your analogy might make sense if said chick with make up can only be photographed from a certain flattering angle, because the full view would reveal the ugly truth.

 

[Ventura]

Just like a chick with fake eyelashes, and makeup...haha

Not sure if that analogy is fully accurate. Typically a bit of makeup can be used to 'enhance'...which is what happens all the time in a studio with music...we're not talking about polishing an unsalvageable turd, which would be the case with musicians that can't play their own songs right.

Your analogy might make sense if said chick with make up can only be photographed from a certain flattering angle, because the full view would reveal the ugly truth.

I'd still hit it.

#committed

 

[dirtyfunkg]

Computers, and more importantly the internet did kill it, but only because it's so easy to get distracted by a free and unlimited supplies of free porn videos instead of focusing on that song you're writing.

Or whatever else it is (cars, guitars, sports teams, etc) on the internet that sucks your time away from your musical pursuits.

That and the toppling of the Medellin and Cali cartels. Cocaine made for good rock and roll lol

And I'm not joking about any of this. I honestly think a lower attention span and ease of distractions plays the biggest role.

 

[Monkey Man]

Good point.

Even with my ATARI computer back in the "pre-internet" days, it was ultra-productive. The only app I ever ran was a MIDI sequencer, the ATARI being synced to an ADAT machine. Not a distraction in sight.

The single most-distracting thing that could possibly have been added to the setup would have been today's internet.

 

[Studio420Ben]

Amen

Bang on!