Sure it is nice to have number of different professionals working with same music, but I think state where we are now is much better: no need to beg acceptance from recording company, you can make 100% professional sounding music with minimal costs. Nearly everybody in the western world has access to needed resources to make great music, and for me it really shows up. Sure, big deal of music is crap to my taste, but so has been lot of even published stuff forever. And for my taste, sounds of recordings made before 1978 (or something like that) are too myddy, and don't want to listen them.GMaq wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 2:35 pm I was pointing out the when musicians collaborated and were allowed to be just musicians and focus on doing that one thing (not be the producer, engineer, mastering guy, label head, public relations person... etc. etc.) we ended up with some incredible music that has had some staying power and reached a wider audience over a much longer time.. that's it!
No problem believing this. However, from my personal perspective: if there would not be todays technological possibilities, I would not had made any music to date. Too much other things to do in life, too crowded in calendar, too long distances to meet other people. Without accessible tech and software, I just have had dropped whole thing to even start learning making music.TAERSH wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 3:17 pm I really like all that stuff that makes us able to compose and record music nowadays, so we can do it and listen to it at home whenever and whatever we want. It was much harder in e.g. 1990's when I was using an Atari ST plus Yamaha MT100 4-track recorder. But from my experience the musical result is almost always better, if people working together.