It’s part of the creative process, but it’s also it’s own rabbit hole. 😉 I do like having 42 simulated amps and 56 simulated effects pedals on tap without spending 10s of thousands of dollars, but fiddling with them is it’s own deal aside from playing and is, apparently, never ending. LOL.
But OTOH, if I want to try my hand at a specific song, I can get there without having to research every last bit of tech that went into it.
You’re right though, locking in “my own sound” is still do-able. The manual selection is all still there.
I quit all that tech & dozens of learning curves when I realized I was spending more time in the tech zone that than on music. Think how technically shitty that record ‘Louis, Louis’ was, yet it got covered thousands of times. Can’t ‘quantize’ or ‘EQ’ or ‘reverb’ or ‘mike arrange’ or ‘24-track’ a great song.
Reading the other day a June 2011 Elec. Musician mag. Story on Moby in it, he’d collected hundreds of old analog boxes, after digital came along. Used to make his ‘Destroyed’ album.
It’s part of the creative process, but it’s also it’s own rabbit hole. 😉 I do like having 42 simulated amps and 56 simulated effects pedals on tap without spending 10s of thousands of dollars, but fiddling with them is it’s own deal aside from playing and is, apparently, never ending. LOL.
But OTOH, if I want to try my hand at a specific song, I can get there without having to research every last bit of tech that went into it.
You’re right though, locking in “my own sound” is still do-able. The manual selection is all still there.
I quit all that tech & dozens of learning curves when I realized I was spending more time in the tech zone that than on music. Think how technically shitty that record ‘Louis, Louis’ was, yet it got covered thousands of times. Can’t ‘quantize’ or ‘EQ’ or ‘reverb’ or ‘mike arrange’ or ‘24-track’ a great song.
One of my favorite artists has his gear list on his website:
https://smither.com/etc/gear-bag/
"Pickup
Who knows what they put in those things?
DI
Who cares?"
LOL.
Reading the other day a June 2011 Elec. Musician mag. Story on Moby in it, he’d collected hundreds of old analog boxes, after digital came along. Used to make his ‘Destroyed’ album.