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Erdem wrote: */"i have just listened to the new juana molina tracks on her myspace site. is it just me who thinks the tracks sound very bad. i am talking about the quality of recording, mixing and mastering. it sounds like everything was recorded with a cheap dynamic mic and not eqed at all. eq, compresion problems all over the place. is this a new trend to have your recordings sound bad to make it indie? i am hearing this kind of sound engineer problems on many new indie albums. i do not think this trend helps the artists or the industry in general. your opinions?" /* Honestly, Erdem, when I hear her new album I just hear music. The longer I have played music in my life and the more music I hear, I have to confess, the less I really care about fidelity. My wife just recorded some lead vocal tracks for her next record on an ancient and very heavy cassette player that has noticeable warble in it.................it's as lo fi as you can get and the vocals are magical to me..............noise and all. The reason is because that incredible music has been recorded poorly and incredible music has been recorded fantastically but if I were to eschew the music that was recorded poorly (or usually on a much smaller budget), then I would have lost a good half of the things I love most dearly in my recording collection and the enjoyment that has come from it. I have some Somalian pop recordings that have despicable sound recording quality, hiss and noise..............I love them dearly and their poor audio quality just doesn't bug me. Lately, I've even gone back and started listening to some of my old Reggae recordings on cassette tape...............there's something charming and funky about it. In the late 70's and early 80's one had to be very wealthy (or extremely popular with the backing of someone really wealthy) to make really pristine audio recordings but now we live in an age where anyone with $250 USD can record things with condenser microphones in 24 bit/96 khz. I think it is legitimate to try for the very best of audio recordings but the bulk of the worlds population are starting to listen to recording in mp3 format which is awful by contrast to well recorded vinyl or CDs. So, in conclusion, between you and me, I didn't have a single thought about the quality of the recording. For the most part, I've never had the money in my life to do things that were state of the art so the fact that I can record music now with decent preamplifiers and high resolution/bit rates makes me happy as hell. Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics made his first album with a cheap 4-track reel to reel, a guitar, a cello, a cheap drum machine, some cheap stomp box effects pedals and one cheap microphone (I think it was an SM58 Shure).......................................I adore that record! 8888888888888888888888888888 That's just my take on it, but to me.....................the music (and it's spirit) always trump the equipment used to record something. That being said, your recordings are beautiful and pristine and I salute you for them. Respectfully, Rick Walker