From Jon Drukman Sent Tue, Mar 24th 1998, 00:12
From Jon Drukman Sent Tue, Mar 24th 1998, 00:12
siliconvortex wrote this: > but your lexicon costs more than many people's whole setups. so. if you're not prepared to spend tons of dough you don't belong in the electronic music biz. :) > and besides, there's a lot to be said for nasty metallic reverbs - > if king tubby were around, he'd be able to explain better than i no no no no... he used tape delay! WORLD of difference. the irony now is that a good tape delay can cost many hundreds of bucks... almost enough to buy a good lexicon digital unit... (totally different sounds of course... i would kill for a nice Space Echo.) > no-one needs a lexicon! no one needs a sampler either but it makes some things easier. > those who have the talent to make music that people want to hear can do it > on anything, regardless of cost or sophistication. those who do not, we > generally find spending more and more money, surrounding themselves with > complicated gear, while their music becomes more two dimensional, less > human, more sterile, until no-one at all takes any notice of them, and they > give up. the musicians i respect the most know what to do with a studio full of expensive gear. it is easy to spot those who are overwhelmed by their gear list. > the classified section of your favourite music magazine is full of > failed musicians selling their expensive studios. heh, most of the people i find selling stuff like lexicon pcm90s for half off retail are either junkies trying to score a fix or gigging musicians trying to make the rent. my friend bought a drum machine off some kid on haight st who was clearly jonesing > some of the more interesting musical ideas in the past have come from > mistakes - why should we always avoid bad engineering? i didn't say we should. i just said a lot of people use distortion to hide the fact that they don't know how to make a clear mix. > in a lot of people's records these days, it's the unintentional, the > background fizz and clips, that are more interesting than the > composed music itself these people should give up and learn how to write proper tunes then, dammit. :) > what's right today is invariably wrong tomorrow. it's much better to be > 'different' than 'right'. it's best not to have too much control. difference of philosophy. for me, music is *all* about control. if i introduce a chance element it's cos i WANT it there, not because i don't know how to work my gear. note that i am not talking about systems music and algorithmic composition. i like that stuff and will happily set up systems or whatever. but the end result is because i MEANT for that sound to be there, one way or the other. -- Jon Drukman xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Plan: Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.