![]() ![]() This goes to show that Sad Machine is just different, not better, because of the number of channels. Sense of depth (Sad Machine has more ‘atmosphere’).Yet something like Sad Machine has a very catchy melody and clear focal element, regardless of those extra channels. Recommended: 5 Hard-to-Develop Skills All Successful Producers Have An ExampleĬonsider the song Alors On Danse by Stromae. This is why certain genres (like glitch) tend to have a greater number of channels per track. Not that adding it is bad, but do it with intentionality.īecause at the end of the day, different music with different numbers of channels doesn’t vary in quality, it’s just different.ĭifferent because they achieve a unique sound through the use of more elements. If these instruments are forward in the mix, it’s unlikely that the listener is going to hear that delayed/pitched sinewave you put in the background at bar 44, at least not the first time. Those elements could be made up of 1 layer or 10, but people only hear it as one thing. These aren’t bad, but remember that the human brain can only focus on 3 elements at once. They were finishing touches – 1% improvements. Most of the time, 50 of the channels in a 100+ channel project would be little one-off ideas that the track could have gone without. ![]() Same goes with hours spent on a DAW project, the number of plugins used and whatever else you can count.įrom personal experience, the moment I stopped thinking that ‘x number of tracks’ or ‘x number of hours spent’ would make my music better, was when I started actually writing better music. ![]() Nobody listens to music and thinks ‘oh, they must have used over 100 channels to make this!’ (once again, unless you’re a producer). But the best music is music that people identify with, not just producers. ![]()
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