Opinion(s) required...

[Wandering Kid]

surely the turd polishing reference means: throwing 10s of thousands of dollars at something wont make it better. you have to do that yourself.

it is odd, coming from a painting background that such weight is given to the importance of the tools of the trade in music production, as opposed to the skill of the artist at making the most of those tools. When i was painting, a brush was a brush was a brush. and a graphics tablet was a graphics tablet. it didnt really matter what you used, so long as you were comfortable with using it. having thousands of dollars worth of airbrushes and a wacom tablet the size of a pool table didnt make you good at painting, only you yourself could do that.

perhaps this is just me?