Other than Auto-Tune, which new inventions in musical instruments/studio technology from the past 25 years have considerably changed the way music sounds?

xp what is it about the EQing in modern music that wouldn't have been possible earlier? I'm relatively new to production so sorry if this is a silly question.

I am highly skeptical of that claim, to say the least

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-line-6-dl4-is-quietly-the-most-important-guitar-pedal-of-the-last-20-years/

^^^ yeah that's the other thing I was thinking of

Geir are you an Animal Collective fan?

Not exactly a new invention, but the widespread adoption of seven-string guitars in metal — which began with Korn in 1994 — had a major impact on the sound of the genre and the way metal bands wrote songs, etc.

I don't listen to metal anymore, but I get the impression that drum triggers/samples and Pro Tools forever changed the game (for certain styles)?

I don't listen to metal anymore, but I get the impression that drum triggers/samples and Pro Tools forever changed the game (for certain styles)?

Talk about trigger delay!

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xp what is it about the EQing in modern music that wouldn't have been possible earlier? I'm relatively new to production so sorry if this is a silly question.

― paolo, Thursday, July 11, 2019 5:16 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

On, say, the mixing desk used to record Sgt. Pepper, each channel had a knob for Low and High, and that was largely the extent of EQ adjustment available. Over the next few years, Mid creeped in, then High Mid, Low Mid, etc. so by the '80s mixing desks had maybe 6 or 7 EQ knobs per channel.

Today on a typical DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) there are thousands of frequencies (probably more) that can be tweaked on each channel, theoretically allowing each instrument/channel to be heard more distinctly.

(This is a vast oversimplification, largely due to me not being an engineer.)

no, you're exactly right. while the available spectrum has always been there, access to the spectrum has grown enormously, if that makes sense.

Did the fact that GarageBand was bundled with the Mac OS have an influence? I imagine that if every VCR had come with a video camera, we'd have a lot more filmmakers.

Triggered drums indeed changed things in metal, but that revolution was 25 years ago already. Sonically there’s not a lot of difference between 1999 and 2019 production in say death, thrash or power metal, while you can date a 1989 or 1979 album within 2-3 years almost instantly.

You'd think there would be more Ableton-assisted developments in metal, like tuning the guitars down farther than physically possible. But maybe that's too false.