Most of the time...My ears can easily identify instruments and sounds that make up a lot of songs that I listen to.
BUT...The one component/sound that I have the 'hardest' time picking up on to try and critically listen to is...PADS.
Some songs are easy and I can definitely tell when there is a definitive pad.
But most of the time...Pads seem like this 'elusive' sound/instrument that my ears have a hard time picking up on or that I have a hard time distinguishing from the other instruments and sounds in the song.
So...
1. Could it be that the song does not have a pad at all and therefore I am simply looking for something that isn't even there at all...???
2. Do ALL songs in most genres of modern western music use a pad...???
In other words...Are pads something you should always include in your songs or is it simply a matter of choice/preference...???
3. Does/Can psychoacoustics play a role in this too...???
In other words...Is there such a theory that says...
A song can actually create its own 'ambience' (or Pad in the song itself)...even though there is no pad instrument, sound or track at all to begin with...???
Therefore...
Is it plausible that its just a matter of the instruments/sounds, technical methods/techniques, technical sound design and music theory/arrangement...(all combining together cohesively)...that is actually causing the song to create its own 'ambience'...
Hence...The ear picks it up as a ambience and than tells the brain that there is a pad there...(psychoacoustics)...when there really is not.
Seems like my brain/ear gets lost in the mix and therefore I don't even know if what I am listening to is even a pad at all or its just the combination of really long reverb tails of multiple instruments/sounds in the mix.
BUT...The one component/sound that I have the 'hardest' time picking up on to try and critically listen to is...PADS.
Some songs are easy and I can definitely tell when there is a definitive pad.
But most of the time...Pads seem like this 'elusive' sound/instrument that my ears have a hard time picking up on or that I have a hard time distinguishing from the other instruments and sounds in the song.
So...
1. Could it be that the song does not have a pad at all and therefore I am simply looking for something that isn't even there at all...???
2. Do ALL songs in most genres of modern western music use a pad...???
In other words...Are pads something you should always include in your songs or is it simply a matter of choice/preference...???
3. Does/Can psychoacoustics play a role in this too...???
In other words...Is there such a theory that says...
A song can actually create its own 'ambience' (or Pad in the song itself)...even though there is no pad instrument, sound or track at all to begin with...???
Therefore...
Is it plausible that its just a matter of the instruments/sounds, technical methods/techniques, technical sound design and music theory/arrangement...(all combining together cohesively)...that is actually causing the song to create its own 'ambience'...
Hence...The ear picks it up as a ambience and than tells the brain that there is a pad there...(psychoacoustics)...when there really is not.
Seems like my brain/ear gets lost in the mix and therefore I don't even know if what I am listening to is even a pad at all or its just the combination of really long reverb tails of multiple instruments/sounds in the mix.