fuckyeahemo: hardcorefornerds: fleetfootedfox: tristn: “The final world-shattering salvo of the Loudness War”: Here’s the waveform of the first minute of Sleigh Bells “Crown on the Ground”. Ohmygod.  It’s clipping-as-distortion-effect. but clipping (or, at least, serious deterioration of sound quality) is already an effect of distortion, when you listen to enough low-quality vinyl rips of 90s emo bands turning from pin-dropping to full-on, crashing crescendos. this is beyond lo-fi; it’s fail-fi. deliberately sabotaging every second of your music might be an interesting artistic statement - it might even sound exciting, for some - but I can’t help feeling it lacks the energy and integrity that comes from ‘honest’ music. not that there wasn’t some dishonesty in ripping off Slint and then screaming on top of it, but there was feeling. (here’s agrammar on the topic of production and this Sleigh Bells song) Crush, expand, crush, expand; louder, louder, louder; destruction, lifeless It destroys me The biggest failure of this is that digital clipping doesn’t create a “good” kind of distortion like analog recording does. The thing about analog, tape specifically is that there is more overhead to absorb some of this clipping, and though it may distort slightly, it doesn’t crackle and cut out the way digital clipping does. I was honestly just playing this as my friend Travis was walking by my room and he actually stopped to comment that it sounded like a baby crying Maybe I’m missing the point, but I would much prefer hearing this with just a little bit crushing and maybe turn up the gain some but to go as far as to purposely push it beyond the red zone so consistently is bad mixing in my book. On casual listening I wouldn’t know whether it was supposed to sound this way or if my speakers were just messing up
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fleetfootedfox:

tristn:

“The final world-shattering salvo of the Loudness War”: Here’s the waveform of the first minute of Sleigh Bells “Crown on the Ground”.

Ohmygod.  It’s clipping-as-distortion-effect.

but clipping (or, at least, serious deterioration of sound quality) is already an effect of distortion, when you listen to enough low-quality vinyl rips of 90s emo bands turning from pin-dropping to full-on, crashing crescendos.

this is beyond lo-fi; it’s fail-fi. deliberately sabotaging every second of your music might be an interesting artistic statement - it might even sound exciting, for some - but I can’t help feeling it lacks the energy and integrity that comes from ‘honest’ music. not that there wasn’t some dishonesty in ripping off Slint and then screaming on top of it, but there was feeling.

(here’s agrammar on the topic of production and this Sleigh Bells song)

Crush, expand, crush, expand; louder, louder, louder; destruction, lifeless

It destroys me

The biggest failure of this is that digital clipping doesn’t create a “good” kind of distortion like analog recording does. The thing about analog, tape specifically is that there is more overhead to absorb some of this clipping, and though it may distort slightly, it doesn’t crackle and cut out the way digital clipping does.

I was honestly just playing this as my friend Travis was walking by my room and he actually stopped to comment that it sounded like a baby crying

Maybe I’m missing the point, but I would much prefer hearing this with just a little bit crushing and maybe turn up the gain some but to go as far as to purposely push it beyond the red zone so consistently is bad mixing in my book. On casual listening I wouldn’t know whether it was supposed to sound this way or if my speakers were just messing up

Source: tristn