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There’s definitely a difference between a Rev2 at 8 voices w/ chorus, pan spread and detune vs. a Trigon 6 with pan spread, detune, and chorus. Something like the Rev2 is made to fit a space with far more instruments than an analog synth like the Trigon 6. Your music type is inconsequential. Synth manufacturers and sound designers do take into consideration how a synth will fit in mixes, regardless of genre.
yes, but nobody thinks about creating a quantum computer before understanding how a simple CPU works, why would it be any different when it comes to audio engineering?
People online are asking themselves the wrong questions, because of their lack of understanding of the discipline. There is a path to learning, like in any discipline, and there are no shortcuts.
Channels like audio university on youtube are a good starting point for beginners in my opinion, something doesn’t “sit in a mix”, it’s the job of the audio engineering to make something fit a mix.
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agreed. i actually think modern DAWs and plugin developers have done a disservice to beginners by having everything be stereo by default. with an analog mixer that beginners could afford, youd have around 12 mono channels… if you were lucky maybe 2-4 stereo channels mostly used for reverb. mixing is just easier that way. especially with an eq on every channel you can tweak super fast. nowadays if you chuck a delay on a channel in the DAW or turn on a synths inbuilt delay it’ll most likely ping pong all over the place by default. it might sound good in isolation but when you add more elements like that things start to fall apart real quick.
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