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I'll never record again, ever.

#121
Fat Freddy said:
I recorded myself once and discovered that I was the huge tool.....:(
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I had an episode around 2003 wherein my band at the time recorded a fantastic demo. I was invited to help add some vocal harmonies on one song and I did my best, gave it my all.

Once out of the booth, the tape was rewound and the dude hit "play" and the looks INSTANTLY went around the room and the dude hit "stop" after literally three seconds. HARSH!
 
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#122
9 years ago, my band was recording a demo/album/whatever. It was a pretty decent home studio, and the guy was paid by the hour. Myself and the Rhythm Guitarist were splitting the lead vocals. It became obvious that RG was a better singer, in a technically proficient kind of way. My vocals always went over well live, but that was my first time singing in a studio... and my last. The engineer told me I just don't have a good voice for recording... he was right. I had sung live so many times, and was always pretty good at things like karaoke... I just assumed I'd be a decent vocalist in the recording booth. I was a little butthurt at the time, but life moved on, I got over it, and never attempted to record vocals again.
 
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#123
The #1 rule of TB Fight Club is to actually not read the 5 or 6 previous pages of comments and make the same "#1 rule of TB Fight Club" joke multiple times.
The second rule of TB Fight Club is to not read the original post or question and just reply with "Darkglass".

Bottom line - you put yourself out there, you have to expect some people to possibly be di*ks about it, but some people might like it. If your recording is bad and people tell you so, learn how to improve it. Or don't.
How does that one Taylor Swift song about "the haters" go.....?

On a side note, it's unfortunate how another TBer got thrown under the bus in this conversation on the first page, though admittedly, I lol'ed really hard.
(Good one, @Gorn)

We should all have a little thicker skin, especially when seeking validation.
 
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#125
RustyAxe said:
I have enough confidence in my playing that I can handle criticism. I play what I play. Others may not like the song, the style, the genre, the tone of my bass, or for a hundred reasons not like what I laid down. That's fair. I didn't record it for THEM.
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^This.
An artist expresses one's creativity however one chooses. Period.

Anything after that is gossip.

Move on.
 
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#126
RustyAxe said:
That's fair. I didn't record it for THEM.
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So great, and so true - that's how it should be regarded, IMHO.
I had learned that lesson when I posted a track (in a German forum) seeking for feedback, especially on mixing;
One wrote:
"Congrats for the worst song of the year!"

*lol* Really, I wasn't prepared for such things to happen online, I was 100% a greenhorn...
Since his post wasn't actual critique, I could ignore it. And once I saw he's trying to be a pop music producer, I thought what @RustyAxe so brilliantly wrote, above :D

When it comes to music, to me the biggest reassurances that I'm on the right track are:
- I like it myself (= requirement)
- Test listeners move their body, legs, head to the song when listening
- Getting actual critique (means to me: the song is not bad enough to be ignored)
- At least someone's eyes went as wet as mine on a melancholic song
- Playing in front of kids and earning happy smiles from them; happened for the first time this week; unplanned, spontaneously. My guitarist and me were practicing outside, already finished, when suddenly some kids sat down before us *lol* Even though I played horrible, and was way more nervous than playing in front of adults, they even chimed in during the chorus! Made me happy as can :D

Feedback also works without words.

@Killed_by_Death If you get the chance to play in front of others, take that chance. It also may work asking someone you know well enough to listen to your recording; so you can see the body language; when the body moves to the groove, it says more than thousand words, IMHO - and if not, you know your track is not ready yet, due to whatever reason; mic / DI, EQ, latency, timing, tightness, playing, whatever. The listener might as well have had a bad day. Anyway, if that happens to me, and there's no sign that the listener got into the song, I do feel disappointed, but at least it's honest and unbiased feedback, and that I appreciate, because it's rare and valueable.

Anyway, feel free to cheer up and have fun. "Nobody tells a man how to play" - no one but you yourself \m/
 
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#127
Nowadays everyone has to record, recording is the best tool ! When I was younger there was nothing, just K7 I used to dream about owning a 4 track K7 but it was too expensive.
Now I can't read those K7 anymore. I know I've got some recording from 1991.
Don't be ashamed, sometimes you've got a good personal surprise, just for yourself sometimes but who cares ?
 
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#130
Every experience I have had in a studio makes me sure that I want nothing to do with it. Always ended up with a $hitty product, and could have been way better if my concerns were addressed properly. Cut & paste, amp modeling, overdubs..... blah.
 
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#133
Killed_by_Death said:
Yeah, that's not personal at all!
I'll never record audio or video of myself playing ever again, and the encouragement here has helped me solidify that.

What are your reasons for being discouraged from recording?
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I mean can you really put stock in what a guy named heckler#1 says? At worst, just another troll. At best, a one-time extra in an episode of Seinfeld.
 
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KBD, I get that some things get to you easily compared to others, but there's only so much that you can take to heart. Not to mention, how serious are you going to take the opinion of ONE dude named "heckler#1"? If one, singular comment of an internet troll cuts that deep, then why put recordings out on the internet to begin with?

If you really do refuse to record your playing ever again, then that's on you, but does that really merit an entire thread?
 
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