People forgetting the human

[Wandering Kid]

i agree in that 99% of the time, its the person who fucks up. if they blame their tools or say they need better tools to better their mix then most of time they are looking for a quick easy fix to a problem where the only solution is to just try and try again until you get it right.

if your mixdown is a steaming turd and has blatent EQing problems, phasing problems etc etc. you can run them through thousands of dollars worth of effects, DACs and amazing new fangled dithering algorythyms. it'll just be an effected, dithered turd at the end of the day.

but for the people that arent making turds. you know. i can see why they want to perfect their sound and you can get closer to that by knowing how to dither properly. by using certain DACs and effects. this stuff is useless to people like me because my production isnt at a stage where i feel its solid. i still get EQ problems, and my stereo placement is still a bit...errr random. so for peeps like me, its much more worthwhile investing time in how to produce a track properly as opposed to worry about DACs and stuff like that. people that blame poor DACs, poor renderers, poor mastering software when they have blatently just produced a shat track. the old expression 'bad worksman blames his tools' springs to mind.