Except who's to say when something is badly recorded? There was a time when you didn't dare put a distortion on a guitar. Had you done it during that era, it would have been called "badly recorded."thecontrolcentre wrote:Making music isn't the same as recording it. Breaking "the rules" musically wont help you if its then badly recorded/mixed.el-bo (formerly ebow) wrote:These were conscious decisions, though. It wasn't because of a fault in some producers hearing that the guitars and drums in metal were the dominant force. And while punk was rough as hell at pub gigs, 'Never Mind The Bollocks' was produced by people who knew exactly what they were doing i.e they knew the rules well enough to know how to break them.Mushy Mushy wrote:If people followed rules then metal, punk, grunge, industrial, etc etc etc wouldn't exist.
Take metal for example, the guitar and drums completely dominate over the lead vocal whereas in pop it's the opposite.
Again, who makes these arbitrary rules?
Because that's what they are. Arbitrary rules.