People forgetting the human

[Juho L]

That mixdown thread inspired me.

I've seen many threads on various forums about minor quality issues like people comparing DAC's, analog and digital mixing, monitors, etc. Some people seem to think that those totally trivial and hardly audible issues are essential for good result and totally forget that the result is 99,9% dependant on the person operating the system.

I couldn't care less what bloody DAC's are on my studio system or how I'm doing the mixing. One of the basic rules of life also applies to studio work: Can't make candy out of shit. An adept bloke can get brilliant stuff even on medicore system and totally unskilled guy can't get antyhing good even he would have 100,000,000 euro studio.

I'm always very amused when people start to compare DAC's like they would have huge effect on the result. People should rather waste their energy on discussing about mastering and mixing techinques rather than on some pseudo-science of mixing algorithms and analogue vs. digital. If your mix sounds muddy it doesn't mean that you should get better gear, it usually just means that you suck. Hoho. The human makes the sound, not the gear.

You won't lern to paint better if you buy the most expensive paints and brushes available. You learn to paint better if you practise painting instead of discussing which paints have the best tone of colour. So people, please, forget the trivialities do something useful for a change. ?hih.