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Originally Posted by TonyBelmont  Agree on all the above.... especially 2" TAPE.
And I'll add....... a GREAT engineer.
There's no shortcuts to this sound folks.... You either go all the way with the gear, the room, and the engineer.... or you forget it.
Up until 1999-2000, Pro Tools was not very common in the big studios. It was ONLY 2" TAPE and SSL's.
Even all the way up until 2002-2003, studios were charging rental fees for people who wanted to use Pro Tools. Now, you can't even find a tape machine. |
This is all true but the important cultural factor not metioned here: an actual
label with elastic purse strings and an expectation it will recoup its costs through a rapacious profit margin for $18.99 CD's sold to the consumer in Tower Records, while offering the artist Byzantine accounting obfuscating the fact that the artist is getting paid pennies on the dollar.
The $18.99 CD's are gone. Tower's gone. Artists have figured out that <1% royalty on net is absurd. Consequently, the budget's gone. Bob Power's still here but you can't afford him.
The '90s was a different time.
Don't romanticize the past. Deal with the now. Jump into a DAW and use your imagination and create a masterpiece for tomorrow. Use the tools that are swinging in the toolshed.
And when you create that masterpiece, own the master.
- c