I actually thought the guy had some good points and interesting insights about the nature of hardware and live recording and such.

It doesn't make much sense to me to argue about meandering videos like this, because his points are really just points and not concrete arguments in and of themselves, so there's nothing to disprove.

But it is fairly impossible to disprove at least some of the things that he's saying because a lot of people ARE using the same loops and stems and samples in their music and a lot of people ARE squashing all of the dynamic range.

You also can't say that he's starting with a false premise because he doesn't really have a much of premise, just a bunch of random insights.

But, if anyone were to ask me why a lot of music sounds the same (or is starting to sound the same) I would say it's probably because of laziness.

It doesn't really take much effort to hastily grab a bunch of samples or loops or stems generated by a machine to throw something together in a couple of hours and post it on the Internet, or upload it to Spotify.

SO, I might come up with a premise:

The length of time spent producing a piece of music is directly proportional to the quality of that music.

I can test that.

And that makes it a premise.

Just throwing it out there.

laugh

* I realize, however, it is possible to spend a month on a tune and still have it be horrible no matter what approach you use but that is for another day. (And from time to time I have seen someone write and record a masterpiece in 3 hours but not all that often.)

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