(09-12-2016, 11:41 PM)Blitzzz Wrote: Well, sounds good, but it's not true. Not true at all. Just hit the usual forums whenever a new album of a famous band is released and see people go crazy when stuff doesn't sound like it should sound. Saint Anger anyone? Death Magnetic? Opeth?
And regarding the comfort zone: Do not think that you are innovative because you choose to use a sample/sound that normally won't be used for this genre. If you do this because you can't get the snare to sound like it should sound you take the easy way out - and therefore stay in your own comfort zone instead of learning how to get THAT sound
I remember back in the day... When the first distortion sound came into being.. People hated rock music. It was cataloged like a devilish music.. Now even pop songs have distort guitars. If everyone kept doing the same thing.. None of the genres we know now would exist. It was because there was someone willing to risk a sound that we now have al that we have. That's my point.. Not necesarily go and put a jazz snare in a metal song.
As for the innovative part.. I genuinly believe music as complex as it is today.. Is really hard to come up with something inovative. I believe at this point anything anyone comes up with is just gonna 32nd up being similar to something someone around the world already created. Same goes for mixing. For example if you read the art of mixing book... The author explains how back in the day there were specific "ways" to mix. That style of mix even had a name... That was back in the 80s give or take. Right now there is no such thing because everything is so complex that it would be pointless to give it a name.
I would say right now artists look for people who can get the job done like they want it to be. More or less now with the "in the box" mix.. Everyone is mixing their own stuff. The glory days of professional studios are dying. The Home Studio is the new revolution. Still though.. Xlr cables for live sound are app old school.. I wish more optical cable inovations would be possible in live sound. Less delay .. And less cabling. Someone should invest into research like that lol. I wish I was super rich to do that. Also a wireless p.a. with the fidelity of a wired one. That would be really cool too. We are not there yet but we will.