David Rosenthal: belief

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…Do you think we are? I don't think we are. I think we are. You know, better. We walk into the studio here in Stockholm, and we're like, this is just a skill beyond our imagination. Yeah, we're very fortunate. It's a lot of fun because artists love just hanging out here, too, because we've got everything that they like to use and to do. My point is, if you think about it, it is a very technical workflow that takes a lot of time to get into. Some of the parts of that workflow, you'd have to watch probably hundreds of hours of YouTube videos to even decode or how to do it and start getting into it. A lot of today's composers are experts in their workflows. They have their plugin sets, they've got these 16 things that they daisy chain together in order to create that one effect that defines them, and so on and so forth. The barrier still, if you said today, I want to start making music, and I want to make something that sounds pretty good, it's still quite high, that barrier. It's getting lower and lower, and it's getting easier and easier. But I would still argue that the bar, for you to make something that sounds professional would actually be a high quality song, it requires a lot of time and a lot of effort.…

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