Will home recording kill commercial studios?
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 09:26:29 +0000, John Williamson
wrote:
On 09/12/2020 07:21, geoff wrote:
On 9/12/2020 5:43 pm, James Price wrote:
If it were no longer a viable career path, recording studios would
occupy a niche market on par with typewriter repair.
Eventually those recording in a home or hobby environment may want a
better recording room acoustic, maybe studio instruments (ie real piano,
drums, Hammond, Leslie, etc), better and wider range of mics, expertise,
selection of misc percusiion, etc.
That's the market I'm aiming for with my project. A very nice sounding
room, with whatever instruments you want me to bring in. Grand piano,
percussion and pipe organ always on site.
But many will remain happy with what they get at home.
True.
Nice sounding is very much out of style right now. Human voices are
required to resemble fog horns - I've even noticed kids trying to
create the sound of pathological autotune in their normal singing
voices. As for nice sounding rooms to record acoustic instruments, do
they really want that? Most of the instrumental stuff is going to live
in synths, and the room acoustic will come later. The more aware will
use impulse responses but most will be happy with synthetic reverb.
Nice acoustic spaces will be increasingly niche.
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