The Tuesday DiScussion: Is your bedroom the new Abbey Road?

we do everything at home and even though that means no drummer it's still a challenge to eak out the best quality you can with the tools at hand.

The only downside is that most of the main music production software tends to bend what you're doing towards the means of the software (i.e. something like ableton is quite hard to get results when not in 4/4, not impossible but...) and is a definite stamp on the end result, i.e. you can always tell when someone's used protools or waves to master a track.

I am new to it myself, but love the idea that with the equipment currently available you can work at your own pace, whenever you want to and it's free.

The equipment can also only get better which is never a bad thing.

I am currently writing and recording my debut album ;)

It can't be that this sort of thing has always been there and that it's just the internet that's opened it up, as there wouldn't have been equipment with which to record it on available to anyone without much money.

This sort of thing does open the dorr for a lot of artists, but that means that a lot of crap ones come through as well (I can't think of one off-hand though). It's still definitely a good thing though, as no matter how many crap ones come through, as long as some class comes through, it's worth it.

people for the last 25 years have been making 'bedroom music' of varying quality. There is also no mention of the ultimate 'bedroom' music genius, Mr Joe Meek!

Sold cassettes from his pad - probably send you one today if you send him gifts

Anyway, of course this is a good thing. Ideas flow more easily in bedrooms - how many club nights/albums/films/whatever have found their first exit point in the bedroom? You imagine some mentally romanticised scenario, which appeals to your personality - whether you think in frozen images, or rhythm, or short films or words and on and on - and then try and define and reach that by developing that idea. Your bedroom is the easiest, least harsh place to develop those ideas until they are strong enough to stand up to the light of day.

That - as well as the broader range of sonic options computers allow for - is why artists like Jeremy and Jamie can manage to be quite musically diverse within their own work, and yet still retain some kind of coherence. Their personality's are strong, and once they have that they can inject it via various different methods of approach.

I think that at least begins to makes sense...

or signed to DiS records...

Not that this site is occasionally impartial or anything...

ruined by my typo.

Maybe i should write 'bedroom music' about it.

... the rave and acid house movement started this a long long time ago, for over 20 years bedroom records have been pressed up and even made it into the charts. The situation remains the same now as it did then - you can make everything you want at home but having the capable tools doesn't make you a skilled craftsman - hense the shite sounding backing tracks that some of these musicians play along to at gigs (sound engineers nightmare) and the crap that's released on Myspace.

the first Streets album.

dont think any of the above touches that.

can i get a 'hell yeah'?

OMG!

is that most midrange to low end studios were crap...

crap in that it was really hard to get the sound i wanted... everything was always too clean and pristine, cause that was the "right" way to do it...

so i got tired of fighting with crap engineers and shit and started buy gear to do it myself...

is today tuesday?