Comment by icarus_drowning
14 years ago
stop being so paranoid about what you think you can't hear, and enjoy the damn music.
I'm a composer who works in film/games. I can assure you this is exactly what I'd like people to do when they listen to my music. I spend 99% of my time trying to create good musical ideas, and I spend 1% of my time getting the mix down. I get criticized (rightly) for this quite a bit, but it is hard to care about someone sitting in a >$10,000 labyrinth of sound equipment when I'd rather write a catchy tune.
Then again, when I write sheet music I have to endure some of the most soul-crushingly awful midi sequencing in order to check my work, so perhaps I'm too tolerant to terrible sound quality. Still, I'd rather people listened to the music, not the sound of it.
What's wrong with caring about both sides of it?
A good sounding catchy tune is something work spending that little bit more time on.
I don't necessarily mind effort spent on making sure that music is presented properly-- what I mind is when it supersedes all other concerns about the music.
> A good sounding catchy tune is something work spending that little bit more time on.
But in reality most of your customers want a ton-frakk of compression, loudness and filters on that catchy tune so it ultimately sounds HUGE on the tiniest phone, radio and car speakers... so all that audiophile mixing and dynamics are completely lost anyway.