Originally Posted by Edward
If you're any good you should be able to get good sounds and write a good track in a couple of days.
I think the second two uses of the word "good" aren't required there.
Then it would read "If you're any good you should be able to get sounds and write a track..."
But surely even if you're shit you should be able to get SOME sounds and make A track.
That would be virtually meaningless. What did you mean?
Quality of a tune isn't dependent on technical ability
I know what you want to say, but:
Quality of a tune is entirely dependent on technical ability if you allow the word "technique" to encomapss musicianship and composition technique and well as engineering.
Depends on your definition of "technical".
If you are any good at engineering you can get a good snare sound in half an hour rather than 4 days.
Same as if you are good at rapping you can get your vocals down in one take instead of all afternoon with another session tomorrow.
Plenty of awesome house, techno, rave and hiphop tracks were made in under a day.
I can understand wanting to get AMAZING sounds, I just reckon if you have some ability then you can do it fast. I cannot IMAGINE spending days on a snare sound.
Of course with modern techology, if you can get the song down and then spend an extra day coming up with amazing edits or tweaking the mix then of course it's worth it to make a better record. Of course spend time perfecting it.
But if you have an idea for a track and then spend four days on the snare, you will forget the inspration and vibe you had when the idea came.
This is why its worth learning technical stuff like how program synths, machines, how to play instruments etc. because then you can bash it down fast while it's fresh instead of losing the vibe while you try and tweak the kazoo preset.