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Found my dad's old tapes of just satisfying factory machine loops
Used to be so simple, just watching gears turn for hours. Now every video has to be ASMR or super edited, but the old stuff still zones me out perfect.
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claire_craig328mo ago
Feel this a lot with how everything gets turned into content now. I mean, even calm stuff needs a hype edit or a voiceover explaining why it's calm. It's like we can't just let things be simple and boring in a good way. Maybe it's just me but I see it with music too, where old recordings have that raw sound and new ones are so polished they lose something. Those factory tapes hit different because they're not trying to be anything, they just are.
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brookem148mo ago
Those old jazz records from the 50s were made on tape machines with real limits. I get what you mean about polish, but I see it as more tools in the box now. A good artist today can still make something that feels raw and real, they just have to choose to. The problem isn't the polish itself, it's when people use it as a cover for having nothing to say.
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oliviabutler8mo ago
Honestly that last part hits so hard. It's like when the polish is the whole point, you can just feel how empty it is.
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claire_craig328mo ago
When you said polish is a cover for having nothing to say, that hit home. I read something similar in a music blog last week. They said modern tools let you fix everything, so the mistakes get erased but so does the character. It becomes too safe and loses its edge. Like those old jazz records, the limits forced creativity, not just cleanup.
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roberto908mo ago
Zones you out perfect? Really that effective?
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henryrivera8mo ago
Billie Eilish's first album proved you can have all the tools and still choose the raw, quiet sound. The polish only becomes a problem when it's the default setting for every project. It flattens everything into the same shiny, forgettable surface.
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