Ampwall as an alternative to Bandcamp

There’s two major factors that convinced me to upload my music work here:

1. Music can be uploaded and downloaded with 24-bit resolution and 48 KHz sample rate quality.

As an individual with a sensitive hearing apparatus (and being an audio engineer), I can notice the subtle differences between 24 versus 16 bit depth and 48 versus 44.1 KHz, while the differences between 24 bits versus 32 (possible with WAV) and anything above 48 KHz are so subtle to human hearing that I even wonder if I’m having a bias when listening or if its really out of my perception and I’m not hearing a difference.

The differences are evident only when comparing 16 to 24 bits and 44.1 to 48 KHz.

Precaria’s music, along with my other projects’ music is distributed to digital platforms by CD Baby, and this distributor only accepts audio with 16 bit and 44.1 KHz quality — therefore, the audio that arrives to Youtube Music, Spotify, Apple Music, etc, is not in its prime form, even if a platform claims to offer a higher quality download (practically only summing size to a file, but not recovering any audio information that was not already there in the first place).

This factor is absolutely determining and the most important for me to consider a platform where I can directly upload the audio quality of the original masters and it can be downloaded without degradation.

I throw my entire soul to my music, so the desire to keep its integrity as intact as possible is something I really appreciate.

2. AI related reasons.

I am not opposed to using a bit of help from AI to refine certain (subtle) characteristics of, for example, an artwork, but I obviously don’t support AI substituting the artist. Music made with AI to spam playlists and generate revenue for “music programmers” (I won’t call them music producers), and entire artworks with no life, no essence, no identity behind them but the sum of prompts made by anyone with access to the latest model is a culture that I don’t want to promote. It is basically analogous to fast food versus gastronomy — quick, formulaic, unhealthy; while gastronomy is unique, cultural, artistic, excites the senses... This serves as a metaphor that I can further expand: Imagine you have a regional Mexican dish from the deep Mexico (some rural area) and you put some Tabasco sauce on top — this is the analogy for an artwork made by a real artist, but maybe a certain object texture being altered with the help of AI — Ok, it was used as a “sculpting” tool, not as a “generative” tool. This is my argument on AI in arts. It should never predominate over what the artist creates.

This gave me a good reason to come to Ampwall and support the platform, as we share similar values.