> As a consequence, though, the standards for mixing and mastering have gone up massively; people don't really tolerate bedroom recordings with $10 mics any mor

> As a consequence, though, the standards for mixing and mastering have gone up massively; people don't really tolerate bedroom recordings with $10 mics any more. I don’t find this holds true for hip hop, the most streamed genre, whatsoever. There are countless examples of people making it big recording on a cheap mic in their mom’s bed room. One example is Chief Keef. A much more prominent example is Kanye who had terrible mixing on The Life of Pablo to the point where he released patches[0] for the album. He also recorded parts of Jesus is King on an iPhone[1]. To further the point, bootleg recordings and demo tapes of unreleased songs in artists’ back catalog continue to be popular with devoted fans. Average people like good music, even if the quality of the mixing and mastering is not stellar. Even The Beatles released songs with minimal takes from a live rooftop performance on Let It Be; hardly an ideal recording set up. Although they surely had better mixing. [0] https://archive.org/details/2016-the-life-of-pablo-updates https://archive.org/details/2016-the-life-of-pablo-updates [1] https://genius.com/a/kanye-west-says-20-percent-of-jesus-is-king-was-recorded-on-an-iphone https://genius.com/a/kanye-west-says-20-percent-of-jesus-is-...