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Something about the creative process really likes limitations Even in tech, some of the most creative ideas are basically hacks to work within some kind of res
by mingus88 3y ago
Something about the creative process really likes limitations
Even in tech, some of the most creative ideas are basically hacks to work within some kind of restraint.
Somehow when every option is on the table, you don’t see such flashes of pure creativity.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoAnd something about being poor too. A friend (in the 80's) had a cassette 4-track that he loaned me for one weekend. (I could not afford the $400 price tag at that time.) In that one weekend I recorded an EP's worth of original stuff I had written (and one cover, I think Lennon's "Cry Baby Cry"). Now, with cash enough to buy something much nicer, I sit on my ass and watch YouTube.
- bluGill 3y agoLimitations force you to explore deep. You don't learn how to make one tool work well when there are 1000 more to try. A couple settings and move onto a different effect means you don't learn what this effect can do in all combinations of settings, and you won't even remember you have it as an option when you get around to recording and it would fit. Pros who record all day should know a lot in depth, but it takes years to develop the sense of what effect would be good and how to use it. So for someone who isn't an expert a couple good choices lets us focus on the art.