People forgetting the human

[Juho L]

Originally Posted by Wandering Kid

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.

Yup. Then you're entitled to ponder differences of DAC's and other trivial "sound polish" things when you're adept at mixing and mastering and only way to improve is for example to change DAC's. My point is that people tend to start from the "sound polish" area and forget to study the area that covers 99,9% of a good result. This is intuitivelly hazardous situation.

I can bet my arm that this forum doesn't have adept sound engineers (that kind of blokes that have a soundwise touch of Midas). It's just silly to focus on the most trivial details when you have lot to improve in your skills. Only really small fraction of people hear difference between DAC's and mixing methods, but everyone can hear a difference between a good mix and a bad mix and the human does the mix.

I know one professional producer and whatever he does it sounds bloody good. Does he have carefully selected DAC's? Does he have an analog mixing desk with thousands of dollars processing gear? No. He has an ordinary PC and the mixes sound good because he knows what he is doing.