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Originally Posted by yep
Heh.
If you want something to aspire to, try to beat the sound quality of "Kind of Blue" or "Take Five". If you're looking to use technology to surpass existing productions, try to beat Pet Sounds or Sgt Peppers or Detroit-era Motown or Thriller for production creativity...
There's still plenty left to do.
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Oh, definitely! Fred Plaut's work is very inspiring, particularly on Kind of Blue and Time Out!
But you have to make a distinction between "sound quality" (technical quality - where we do indeed have much better sound quality in a DAW than Plaut did with analogue tape), and "sound quality" (the subjective quality of those recordings, which stems from the characteristics and limitations of the equipment, the finesse of the musicians and engineers, and the simplicity of a few well-placed mics in a room that sounds amazing in the context of the music).