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Don Pearce wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 12:33:14 -0800 (PST), James Price
wrote:

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 1:32:37 PM UTC-6, Scott Dorsey wrote:
In article ,
James Price wrote:
On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 8:18:36 PM UTC-6, Scott Dorsey wrote:
James Price wrote:
Do you think the rise of home studios will eventually offset
demand for professional recording services to the point that
running a commercial studio won't be a viable career path?

That happened some time in the mid-nineties. Did you miss it?

If it were no longer a viable career path, recording studios would
occupy a niche market on par with typewriter repair.

No, I can actually find a typewriter repair shop.

And I can find a recording studio. However, the percentage of people that
still use a typewriter is trifling compared to audio equipment.

All the full-service studios in the country are gone. The big Hit Factory
auction was basically the sign that everything changed. All the big label
studios are gone... Columbia's 30th st. studio... all the RCA studios gone.

The only studio left in the country large enough for an orchestra or a big
band is Skywalker Sound, and that's an audio-for-film shop.

Okay, but there are plenty of recording studios in North America.

The big problem here is that when you say studios, what you are really
talking about is computers. You need IT specialists, who are ten a
penny. And they don't fix stuff. If your Focusrite interface has died,
you have to buy a new one.

So that's by design. You only get a Focusrite interface if you promise
not to try to fix them. I had broken buttons on mine; I took
the plastic out and use a crochet needle to hit the switches.

They are $500 or so. There's no reason to bother with repair. They're
disposable.

Dave Morgan had Main Street, with a Mitsu DASH and a fricking nice
big D&R. The studio didn't survive the owner. It was like driving a
Cadillac except for the window-mount A/C unit.

It'd take a lot of experimentation between those to convince me
that it was better than a $500 Focusrite, REAPER and a Waves
Gold Bundle.

The call for people who can strip and clean
a Penny and Giles fader is almost zero, and those who can will be on
permanent retainer to the studios that still use them.


I get this mental image of Pip Torrens playing Tommy Lascalles
in The Crown, where he advises the Queen on vagarities of ancient
traditions.

The only comment I have is that nothing I will ever record will sound as
good as the reference copy of "Zadok the Priest" found on YouTube.

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