interesting thread
 
even if it is posted in the coffee house
 
I agree with the above statement! esp sharke... I'm a bit of a 90's child (almost), but does anyone remember HitClips? The sort of angsty teen's precursor to mp3 listening devices that hooked onto only one ear (one model did, at least) and took a giant chip to hold like 1/3 of a pop song at a SUPER compressed sound quality?
 
NOT to say that was great music, but these days I definitely would take my higher sound quality-options over that thingy 
 

It's totally simple. When you record, you usually try to record as well as you can, especially if you're a professional.
Manufacturers struggle to produce the tools for ultimate sound quality. It does not undermine the value of music recorded in challenging conditions or with modest equipment. The music and feeling is what matters.

davdud101
I agree with the above statement! esp sharke... I'm a bit of a 90's child (almost), but does anyone remember HitClips?

I remember listening to music on an AM radio. Even highly compressed MP3s have better sound quality. Nothing like listening to a tune fade in and out as the weather changed, moving the tuning dial ever so slightly to try to bring in that far away station, listening to a soft section of a song get totally lost in the background hiss, only to be jolted out of your seat when a lightning bolt hit nearby and the zap came across the radio. Of course the best was when you went under a bridge or into a tunnel. Then you found out who could really sing in your family!

i love the old punk recordings noise and all

So like if a tree falls... I mean like if you're in the forest and there's no sound... well it's something like that anyway !!!!

"Is sound qulity REALLY that important?"
 
absolutely.
 
otherwise, everybody and their brother's recordings would be just as good as the best.
 
and they're not.
 

 

batsbrew
"Is sound qulity REALLY that important?"
 
absolutely.
 
otherwise, everybody and their brother's recordings would be just as good as the best.
 
and they're not.
 

 

No risk of that, because everybody and their brother can write good music to save their life :)
As mentioned above, in the choice can be good music AND good sound quality (or good production or whatever you want to call it )  that is an obvious choice, my only argument here was that we sometimes tend to forget about the quality of the music itself and it becomes less important than the production etc. 
 
Kind of like having a ****ty book written on beautiful paper and with a dynamite cover, doesn't do much for the book really. 

well, i say, 'to each his own'......
 
but a really well written, well performed, well captured and mixed song,
is always going to catch my attention more than a killer garage band with a recording that sounds like it was in a garage.
 
 
that's why all the really killer classic rock recordings still stand today.
 
you should always strive for the very best end result you are capable of.

tobiaslindahl

batsbrew
"Is sound qulity REALLY that important?"
 
absolutely.
 
otherwise, everybody and their brother's recordings would be just as good as the best.
 
and they're not.
 

No risk of that, because everybody and their brother can write good music to save their life :)
As mentioned above, in the choice can be good music AND good sound quality (or good production or whatever you want to call it )  that is an obvious choice, my only argument here was that we sometimes tend to forget about the quality of the music itself and it becomes less important than the production etc. 
 
Kind of like having a ****ty book written on beautiful paper and with a dynamite cover, doesn't do much for the book really. 

This IS true of course - production value lives to serve good music; we DO listen to music for the music of it and NOT (or at least no necessarily) the production quality. It's interesting to wonder what effects and mics and techniques were used to get certain sounds, but in the end, if the song ain't good, it 't'ain't good!
 
I will however also say that some certain recordings of songs actually ARE better OWING to a lower level of recording quality, or that recordings or maybe an artist's unique sound comes as a a result of lower quality - intentional or otherwise.
 
So yeah, maybe the premise of this thread holds a lot of weight.
 
 
BUT
 
 
I won't fail to mention also that a really POORLY recorded (or highly compressed, for instance) GOOD song can also be a pain to listen to and NOT be enjoyable.

Team Green
So like if a tree falls... I mean like if you're in the forest and there's no sound... well it's something like that anyway !!!!

 
That's what's so funny about that zen thing.  You start off the sentence saying the tree fell....it's pretty obvious the tree actually fell unless it's fake news?