it's just so true. it's hard to accept, I guess, when you are starting out or whatever and you want to just take shortcuts. but I don't even think getting people's settings is a shortcut at that level. It's a handicap.
I'll use Joey's kick as an example cause that's what people were talking about in this thread:
If Joey gave me all his kick settings a few years ago(we'll pretend they were the same back then), I don't think I would have learned much from it. I would have put it on my kicks, probably all of my kicks in every project, ever, and left it at that.
but now, I have actually spent hours with kick samples playing in a loop (I wasn't kidding lol) just messing around with plugins. the order of the plugins. plugins that i normally wouldn't even think of using. etc etc, just trying to match the impact of the kick in "big name" mixes
If Joey gave me his kick settings today, I would look through them, and be like "oh! I see why he did this." etc etc. It would be far more educational, and interesting.
I don't know why I'm ranting about this lol I should start a blog
