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"export" earnings of American studios?
In Asia, it's common for vocal talents and bands to fly to California
to cut albums. Anyone have info on dollar value of such "export earnings" by American studios? Let's define this as recording sessions done Stateside, where the primary intended sales target is either actually overseas, or is the ethnic-american niche market. I think any Non-English-vocals recording also automatically falls into the category. This criterion may be misleading with the Latin market, I'm not familiar with it so I hesitate to automatically apply that criterion to Spanish vocals. |
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In Asia, it's common for vocal talents and bands to fly to California to cut albums. Anyone have info on dollar value of such "export earnings" by American studios? No, but I can say that there are a huge number of studios in Miami that basically survive off the Latin American and Caribbean folks flying in to record. I think any Non-English-vocals recording also automatically falls into the category. This criterion may be misleading with the Latin market, I'm not familiar with it so I hesitate to automatically apply that criterion to Spanish vocals. The thing is that there's also a large domestic market for Spanish-language music. It gets even more confusing when you look at mastering. I used to work for a studio that did all the LP mastering for several South American labels. We'd get spot reels from the studios down south, cut 7" lacquers and carry them to the pressing plant in Atlanta, which would ship the pressings down south again. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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