18-06-2010, 13:47
alexwindsormusic Wrote:I've met a few top sound engineers when I used to work as a roadie and some of them hate everything they hear because thhey're trained to listen to sound, not music, and also to be critical and listen out for all the flaws rather than the positives (and they're crazy!)
Tiggi Wrote:That would be awful...
I've often thought that I'd like to review music professionally, and apart from the fact that I don't think I'd be any good, the thought of losing my love of music because it becomes a job scares me senseless.
I did give some thoughts about these two outcomes and I concluded same thing as you both: it would destroy my love of music.
Because working in a studio, you hear so much music by thinking only "sound" that you just become like these two guys! Horrible.
Same with reviewing music, how the hell can you keep up with good review by listening constantly to new albums? Worse, you listen to them with your critical side, not your enjoying side, and this become your daily habit even with your own music. Some albums need retrospection to appreciate them, you can't always say on a first listen if it is real good or not.
Thinking about it, maybe working in what you love may spoil it. I always enjoyed video games; maybe working in it would destroy my basic vision of them, never enjoying them the same again.
As both are used as entertainment, maybe always doing it is not good, because when you come home after the day you just can't stand them anymore. Horrible again.
