“I put a pitch-shifter on the master bus!”: In the era of lo-fi beats and bedroom recording, does sound quality even matter anymore?

With bedroom-produced DIY tracks topping the streaming charts and explosive distortion the new norm on TikTok, is sound quality becoming irrelevant in 2026?
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Remembering Houston hip-hop pioneer Michael ‘5000’ Watts

Houston hip-hop lost a legend on Friday with the death of DJ Michael “5000” Watts. Watts, 52, was the pioneering producer and ...