when i was younger the guy in the musicial instrument store said to me it dont matter what gear you have it how you use what you got that counts that stuck with me ever since
the very BEST gear is brought to you by...... HUMANS! No gear makes any sense until a person understands the beats. :) As a guitarist, etc, I know this all too well
What gear makes hits... It's all hype. If Thomas Bangalter wrote Homework in his bedroom with a Mackie Mixer, Juno 106 and 909 anything is possible. It's all about the hours (experience) in the studio and your imagination (creativity). Claude is 100% on the money.
It's funny because people buy gear like they were playing live sets then they want to produce with it. So they've got sequencers they don't understand and a DAW they don't understand, and those two things certainly don't make hits. And then every RU-vid channel makes them think that what they really need is $10,000 of Elektron gear and random groove boxes...
Puoi essere quello che Distrugge un campione senza sosta per 30min, e accade quando in zucca c'è anche 1% di come deve suonare da solo o impastato con altre sorgenti You can be the one who Destroys a champion nonstop for 30min, and it happens when there is a "'minimal'" idea of what it will sound like.
If you can't make good music with what's available to you, then you don't have any talent and should look for another hobby. Squarepusher's Big Loada was produced using an Akai S950 and a Boss Dr660. I bet all the instruments I've collected over 20 years that nobody on earth can produce this album by Tom with today's technical means! We're missing the most important tool, Tom Jenkinson's brain. ;) Greetings from Germany