First, we chase sounds ... eventually, we chase feelings
I’ve been thinking over the past few days about how our processes, skills, and expertise can evolve over the arcs of our lifetimes in music production. Here’s another aspect to that:
When we’re first starting out, I think we’re mostly chasing sounds. Trying to get “a good bass sound,” “a good guitar sound,” “a good vocal sound,” and so on.
But as we grow into the engineering side of our discipline, I think that we start to chase not sounds but emotions. The sounds can even become secondary as we become intuitively focused more on the big picture. Not “how does it sound,” but “how does it make me feel”?
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