Well what I mean is producers who don't do what you're talking about and end up mixing and mastering songs that go directly to the label, that's happening right now in this town quite a bit and it's not going over too well with anyone in the business, from one end to other. Guitar, bass, keys, drummers etc. they're all being cut out along with the mixing and mastering engineers and the producer is doing it all, even digital editing. I don't think the bill to the record company is drastically cut either. You can hear it in the songs, it's plenty obvious when I'm listening to XM, when an artist comes on that had a one hat producer on, you can instantly hear it. Maybe if there was a way a lot of that was cut out, so the producer can make his cut and everyone else makes their cut, albeit a little lower of a cut but more volume you'd get the flavor along with the red meat being spread out.
EDIT: It's also effecting songwriters as well. That same producer is on nearly all the writer credits. They'll pull a writer in yeah, but they take ALL the front end and also get a cut of the backend.
Are you guys really THAT far behind the rest of the industry?? Hahahaaaa!! Just kidding. But honestly, on the west coast, we've been there since the late 90's / early 00's. Most other areas of the country as well.
Nashville is always 10 years behind...hell, listen to the radio lol.
Are you guys really THAT far behind the rest of the industry?? Hahahaaaa!! Just kidding. But honestly, on the west coast, we've been there since the late 90's / early 00's. Most other areas of the country as well.
Nashville is always 10 years behind...hell, listen to the radio lol.
Therein lies the rub.
1. There's stuff that is objectively and obviously shit, because it wanted to be shit. 2. There's stuff that is shit because it tried to coopt good stuff, and everyone knows what they were really up to. 3. There's stuff that was "trying" to be good and failed miserably because they didn't truly understand the difference between good and bad. 4. There's stuff that DID understood the difference between good and bad and just didn't have "IT". 5. There's stuff that is just GOOD. And we all know it when we hear it.
Modern Nashville has had some moments where it has had some 3, 4 or 5s, but it's mostly entirely 1s and 2s these days.