Fun Stuff > BAND
The recent popularity of good bands.
sp2:
I just think Hot Topic Goths are the funniest thing ever in the history of life. I mean, seriously, don't be that guy.
Anyways, everyone knows you dance to industrial with your whole body. You don't just spin your hands around a little bit. It's no fun until you break someone's nose with the back of your head.
SpacemanSpiff:
--- Quote from: sp2 ---This includes producers. Many indie labels still require that someone else produce the album. I don't care if you're fucking Steve Albini, producers are all fucking scumbags. If you're not creating sound, you're not a part of the band and shouldn't have any creative control.
--- End quote ---
Though isn't this what Steve Albini does? He pretty much just does the tech for them, he considers himself a "recording engineer" instead of a produce as far as I'm aware. If the band fucks up, you'll hear it on the record. If the band is good, you'll also hear it.
You can rent Electrical Audio and produce yourself, Steve or someone else of the staff will just make sure you won't break the equipment.
Personally, I think a producer who makes the music sound like every other piece he has produced is useless (though I guess necessary for some bands to produce a decent album at all), but a good recording engineer can be damn helpful. If I could choose, I would record my album with analog only, it sounds better. And I know I couldn't handle all this tech from the start, so at least a recording engineer would be helpful.
That said, many bands I listen to simply produce themselves so it's not even a question there.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: sp2 ---
Anyways, everyone knows you dance to industrial with your whole body. You don't just spin your hands around a little bit. It's no fun until you break someone's nose with the back of your head.
--- End quote ---
I suspect he/she was trying a mangled version of the light-bulb-screwy-floor-wipey-etc. goth dance. Which you should only ever really break out for This Corrosion unless you really know what you're doing.
That is also, interestingly, how you can tell if someone's really goth. You just point at them and go 'hey now, hey now now'. If they continue, then they can be in the goth club, and have their secret decoder ring.
What am I saying, I'm not even goth! I listen to more goth music than five teenygoths welded together though.
Kid Modernist:
Here's how you gothic dance: http://www.antigravitypress.com/gothic.htm
I think producers also tell you if what you have is decent or not. They have been around a while and will be able to tell you unbaised if a song is shit or not. It is definitely for more sales though. I would say a producer is a evil you will always get for having someone PAY to put YOUR music out there. I would just work to get him to do as little as possible.
sp2:
--- Quote from: Kid Modernist ---I think producers also tell you if what you have is decent or not. They have been around a while and will be able to tell you unbaised if a song is shit or not. It is definitely for more sales though. I would say a producer is a evil you will always get for having someone PAY to put YOUR music out there. I would just work to get him to do as little as possible.
--- End quote ---
Seriously, though, is that what you really want? Some fuckhole telling you if your music will or will not make a bunch of bank in today's music scene? If you write a song, and you like it, and you want it on your album, then why the fuck shouldn't it be on that album?
And a producer's opinion is never unbiased. It is always biased by what's big in the scene right now and what will sell records. If you do some softer poppy indie rock stuff and also some heavier highly discordant art rock, really, what do you think a producer's going to tell you to stick with on the album?
If you're going to be working with recording, then you should learn the recording equipment. It's as easy as that. You shouldn't hire some fucktwit to get all involved in your music. Know your equipment and how to use it properly (and how to abuse it properly if you're playing that sort of music) and do it all yourself. Keep someone who has no personal investment in your band besides his cut of the profits out of the picture.
There are labels out there that don't pressure you to have a producer. Go to one of them.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version