values
had an interesting meetup with sean bonner last night. we have mutual aquaintances and by accident, got to know each other. straaange and interesting thing, this internet stuff.
sb is in tokyo for a holiday and i've been checking on his blog, seeing where he's been. he's staying pretty close to where i live, so thought a walk round the local hood might be nice. sean is obviously a very nice and intelligent dude, someone i could relate to.
aaanyway, with my life being a mess, i think it kinda got reflected upon my attitude, which i am sorry for. talked quite a bit about the state of music overall. my main question is the value system.
now, for those highly uneducated or highly overtly hopeful people. yeah, you could make music with your sub $1k super duper new trendy box by digidesign or m-audio. I have these boxes. Yes, I do. The problem is, this like like driving a miniature car as opposed to driving something of quality and comfort. performance. Yes, there is a difference in apparatus and you can hear it. These things cost money. Upfront, before you make your recording.
As things become more de-centralized and reliant on self funding or micro funding (not via major record companies, thank god), money and budget management is going to become an issue. It is already an issue to some degree, since all the projects I handle, the budgets are shrinking really rapidly. And unfortunately, those people that know twat about making proper recordings of quality, know twat about the "value for money" of recording budgets and how to spend and save.
For example, in most scenarios, I like to use quality rooms for basic recordings. Basics would usually entail drums, loud guitars, real keyboards, etc. These rooms usually cost anywhere between $500 to $1500 a day in America. Basic recordings usually require about 2 weeks of time. So, that's $7,000 minimum for studios. Add to this, a recording engineer, which, in America would fetch anywhere between $200 to $2,000 a day. On an avr of $500, another $7k. Plus, had drives, which are around say $200 each, a typical project would require a minimum of two drives, $400.
Are you with me still? Maybe I should type more later, not thinking about this while I write, not good.