• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Me at 14 trying to recreate my favorite palm-muted metal strumming patterns from songs I know: “what the hell why does their shit sound so good and thumping and my shit sounds like AM radio static in a tin can?”

    Me, many many years later: “BASS! IT WAS ALL MISSING THE FUCKING BASS!”

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        It took a while as a guitarist/keyboard player just learning and starting out to realize how fundamental it is. I kept trying to turn up the low end of things in the mixer in my software to compensate without realizing what I was missing.