>>121475555I'm not saying record utter shit and post it to DistroKid. But say for a rock band, the sound you could get with MIDI drums + bass, DI guitar, amp simulators, a bedroom vocal recording, and a service like LANDR is probably good enough to put out on Soundcloud or YouTube.
Chances are, the vast majority of your songs are going to be released to zero fanfare. It's very demoralizing when you pay hundreds/thousands of dollars and clock-in dozens of hours on your 'magnum opus' only for it to get under a hundred plays.
Normies generally don't pay attention to mix quality like musicians and producers do. As long as the mix isn't offensively bad.
You're just looking for one song to hit in the beginning, one song to get favored by the YT algorithm, anything like that. Once you actually get traction and have eyeballs on your page, then you should pivot to higher quality recordings.