The thing that gets to me about it a bit (leaving aside the audiophile gear industry, which is a whole other thing) is when people get obsessive over some unatainable “perfect” sound. I mean, I can (could) hear a lot of detail in audio that most people don’t, but unless it’s a trade thing (mastering, acoustic design, that sort of stuff) I really don’t understand the impulse to rank it. If anything, I’d rather listen to stuff on the medium and equipment that’s representative of what it was originally produced for*. The “ultimate fidelity” type audiophiles remind me of most of people I’ve known who had true perfect pitch but can’t enjoy most music it sounds “out of tune” (even though being “out of tune” is usually one of the things that makes it sound good). I’m glad that I have really good relative pitch but I’d never want perfect pitch, it seems like a curse to me.
*Since I mostly listen to music released before I was born and worked at oldschool record shops for a decade, I’ve got a respectable but not too high end 1970s hi-fi system pieced together - Tehcnics SP-15 turntable, Technics SA-700 reciever and a pair of second version, plastic-badge AR-2ax speakers. Whole lot cost me $80 plus trading in a pair of EPI speakers that I had paid about $70 for a year earlier and about $20 for the kit to replace the woofer surrounds in the speakers. Not counting the cost of cartridges and a replacement for the midrange driver I blew out back when I couldn’t afford good monitors and did all my mixing through the stereo.
my band played with brainbombs before i joined but i was in the audience, kind of a shit gig but it suits the band. singer was shitfaced & taking selfies in the middle of the gig when he was supposed to be singing
brainbombs isnt supposed to be a good band tho, theyre shit amd they embrace it. cant really compare them to anyone, especially a band who try to be good play good shows. lots of noise rock bands are better bands probably but brainbombs would be worse if they were better in any conventional way
I’m no professional musician, but my equipment is rather expensive.
I can’t hear any difference between the original sound and whatever I record on the octatrack.
I just record at the highest reasonable level and then I have to adjust (meaning: lower) the volume anyhow to fit it in the mix.
But maybe my non pro ears just can’t hear it
