Originally Posted by B.D.Thomas
Originally Posted by WaoBand
I'm interested to read what others think
He's a nice guy and makes a lot of good points, but he's starting from a false premise, which makes his arguments much weaker.
The main reason that uniqueness in the charts(!) is less is that everyone and their little sister is trying to copy successful concepts to increase the chance of success.
And they try to hire the same people.
That's the mindset of the labels.
But - we've never had as many independent artists as we do today, and there's a lot of not-so-same music out there.
Just go over to the Showcase forum - we all use the same software and the same sounds for our songs, so at least the base of our songs must sound the same.
But do you sound like me?
Or like anyone else there?
I don't think so.
I makes me unhappy that a lot of the “get off my lawn” generation forget that alongside the great music they grew up with, there's a lot of new music that's great too.
It's a bit harder to find because there's just too much new music out there, but it's definitely there.
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B.D., I agree with a lot of what you say, but it's not so much that folk are using the same software - in fact there's oodles of new software springing up all of the time - but that when many use the same software they use it in the same way. When I've been on Fiverr looking for female vocalist it's horrible how many use the same voice altering software, similar to the example given in the video, and they all end up sounding the same. I also loathe that sound they use. Comparing the main points in the video to BiaB only holds so far because BiaB samples are used in place of live instruments, while the guy's points are about effects used and such as copying and pasting the same choruses so that there's no variation and a lack of dynamics. I was particularly surprised by the evolution in the waveforms of the recordings he showed as that alone says so much, while as I wrote at the top there's more going on and more highs and lows in my BiaB compositions than in the professionally factory-produced material. I took a screenshot of a slow piece I'm just finishing the final balances on as an example, but alas I can't upload it here without a URL

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