"Jim Kollens" wrote in message
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One thing to keep in mind about these posts that come up endlessly:
recording
used to be basically professional. Professional equipment tends to cost a
lot
of money. Heck, even my coffeemaker (used in restaurants) cost over $400.
But, then again, you can run the thing 24 hours a day. Also, you can buy
parts
for it and repair it yourself. And the coffee tastes better. Why? I
don't
know, but everyone comments on it. When you buy a $30 coffeemaker and it
breaks down in a month of continuous use, does anyone wonder but the
stupid?
Now that every 16 year old has his own studio that totals a few thousand
dollars, should it really sound like the studio that has a couple hundred
thousand dollars (or more) worth of equipment? Well, it better not and it
doesn't. I really hope everyone enjoys the equipment they can afford, but
it
is wise to be realistic about what is and what isn't real.

All true. But also true, that if you choose that few thousand dollars worth
of equipment very carefully and use it in a good room (the second hardest
thing) with great skill (the hardest thing), you can often get 99% of the
way there. There's a lot more sweat equity involved, like tracking
everything one at a time because you only have two or three channels of
good-quality inputs, but it can be done.

Most of the time, of course, it isn't, either because people without much
money to spend often aren't real knowledgeable about what the gear is that
gives you much-better-than-average results for the price, and so buy crap
equipment instead of the real bargains that are out there, or they have a
ghastly room, or they have no skill no real idea how to develop it. Or all
of the above.

Peace,
Paul