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That plastic, over-produced sound
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mquirk1
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Posted : Jan 15, 2005 14:46
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Note: This is not another thread discussing merits or non-merits of full-on.
Whenever I listen to artists like 1200 mics, Alien Project etc, I always find they have the same extremely crisp (to a fault), over-produced sound that just sounds plastic and fake to me. All their track seem to have the same annoying snare drum/percussive line sound, and the same groupings of instruments and frequencies. Infected also has this sound on a few of it's CV songs, and most of I'm the Supervisor.
I mean, I quite like that style of production, but I really think it's being overused when every single act has the same production sound. I think the sound of one's production should be as much a signature of the artist as the tune itself, as opposed to a whole group of artists sounding like they all graduated from GMS university.
Equally annoying is people who think that that sort of sound is some sort of nirvana of production, and that anyone who doesn't sound that needs to mix or EQ better. I think this genre should be more about creativity, both in the style of songs, and the way they are produced.
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deejayridoo
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Posted : Jan 15, 2005 14:58
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agree 100%.
i can´t add anything cause you already mentioned everything 
fuck standardization!
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psy^soldier
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Posted : Jan 15, 2005 15:35
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i see now poeple sarting to go aganinst the copy paste music like this exprsion
more than ever
is this the beginning of the end of this style?
will he grow out of the psytrance and go the the club scene for good?
soone or later time will tell |
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Spindrift
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Posted : Jan 15, 2005 15:38
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Totally agree,
In pop music they realized many years ago that if you actually make everything perfectly balanced and polished it will sound dead and make peoples ears fall asleep.
Compared to much fullon, Britney and Madonna can have much more rough and lively production manytimes.
Which is of course a bit of a sad state of affairs for the trance scene.
But I hope the same awareness will come in the trance scene of what really makes a production sound interesting... perfect balancing of levels and careful EQ'ing to make sure that you get no phase issues or masking is for sure not the key.
Ask any mainstream producer and he will tell you that the rules of sound engineering is more there to be broken than followed.
I want more leads sloppily EQ'es so they clash a bit with the bass sometimes, unsquashed sounds getting masked by each other in an organic way and sounds coming in to loud or quiet sometimes.
Thats what makes the music sound alive in my ears anyway.
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mquirk1
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Posted : Jan 15, 2005 15:42
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Edit - Nevermind
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Anak
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Posted : Jan 15, 2005 16:34
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Yuli
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Posted : Jan 15, 2005 16:47
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parapsyched
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Posted : Jan 15, 2005 17:36
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plastic sound is the way ( not!!!! ) ....... listen to pop listen to hip hop . listen to house listen to fu$$ing linkin park.
its all the same. over compressed . flat in the face.
its the sounf of the 2000 . and it will change.
it just takes time.
now days most music is produced to be as loud as possible and that plastic sound is a part of it.
if u dig deep enough u just might reach the sky...
"dream is destiny"
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EYB
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Posted : Jan 15, 2005 17:43
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Very true!
This was the reason for me to start the LO FI Massaker project.
Psychedlic hardcore sounds that are not overproduced and going new ways of twisting peoples minds.
Check out the first promo, that is a disturbing hardcore mix, into ur mind, here:
http://forum.isratrance.com/viewtopic.php/topic/53506/forum/26
Ill add later a new mix, a complete new view of this short brainstorming track.
Get LO FI Massakered
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Posted : Jan 16, 2005 00:23
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PRAECOX
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Posted : Jan 16, 2005 14:57
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the character of the sound is the signature of the artist.
if the artsit has no the signature - he is anonymous.
his creation has a sounds but no sound.
but who cares? it is the product for the masses.
masses like the repetitiveness - it gives comfort and safety.
it is like macdonald or cocacola. pure plastic.
so tell now to the 1.0000000000000000000000 mass trance lovers "don't buy this plastic shit maybe this will shake them"...impossible.
"Soft as possible" - Morton Feldman
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sam i am
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Posted : Jan 17, 2005 07:01
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I agree
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if you don't have the last one get in touch |
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Jeto
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Posted : Jan 17, 2005 10:48
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EYB
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Posted : Jan 17, 2005 11:22
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On 2005-01-17 10:48, Valley Boy (Jeto) wrote:
dont be mad coz u cant make that plastic sound 
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Yeah, same people are just too jealous.
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a3k
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