However there is a catch, Herb.

You can't make a purse out of a sow's ear.

As one example, that song that you recently produced with Josh is far more interesting and pleasant to listen to than anything that I've heard on the radio for a long long time.

I highly suspect that if you turned over that song to the so-called experts in Nashville and I heard their final rendition I would be slightly queasy. To my ears those people tend to ruin everything not make it better. They take all the life out of it and make it sound cornball and generic.

I try to listen to the radio, including country radio stations, from time to time, but I simply can't bear it and I don't care how many mastering engineers that they had on the payroll.

It sounds effing horrible so who cares.

I would rather hear someone with just a box in their lap who knows how to write a real song and sing and play it and put a smidgen of ozone on it any day of the week.

I honestly don't give a flying flip about 99.9% of the stuff I hear on the radio or discussions of how you need a real studio and a real mastering engineer to sound like that.

To me most of it sounds like crap so who cares.

I listen to far more music here on the forum where people are doing it themselves and using their homemade mixing techniques because at least it's interesting.

I repeat:

At least it's interesting.

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