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Old 03-02-2009, 06:51 PM   #420
Marah Mag
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Seems to me that the subtle adjustments required to get a part to fit with other parts in a well designed mix, including how individual sounds interact as they're processed and reduced and squeezed in to and out of a pair of monitors, will by far override all the variables of wood and transistors and tube types and maybe even mic choice and amp choice and god forbid dare I even say choice of guitar and pickup and the endless other variables that make up an isolated sound in a room.

'Course it all depends on what you're trying to accomplish and what's important to you.

But the idea that a songwriter in a bedroom studio would spend any time comparing the sound of germanium with the sound of silicon through an amp in the same room she's playing and tracking and mixing in is nothing short of heartbreaking.

IMHO.
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