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No-fi or lo-fi should never be used as an excuse to make something that sucks. With bands like Times New Viking and Tyvek and Eat Skull and Psychedelic Horseshit getting more interest from people now, I'm anticipating a wave of second-wave mimicries that are gonna fail, but still try to pass themselves off as passable at least...just like what happened following the wave of acclaim for Pavement and Guided By Voices so many years ago, resulting in "lo-fi" becoming recognized as a genre by the media.
The point is that you do the best with what circumstances you have, and even if you're broke, you make do and hopefully find awesome results. And even if you are rich and you choose to be lo-fi on purpose, if you know what you're doing, you can make it sound excellent regardless.....just so long as you don't suck in some other aspect of record-making.
Hopefully your label will at least pay extra so as not to have Aardvark master that shit. Or else your cymbals are gonna sound like radio static, and that's not a sound that works for many bands. That's squandered some potentially great records.
I'd make you a list of what's good here now, but I already do that every week with the AFS playlists. Most of that's pretty budget or downright slummy.
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