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plexisys · 8th October 2008

Michael

I certainly can't disagree with your choice.

I just think it's foolish for people to think LA or NY are the center of the music business. Very few of the successful acts or albums come out of LA or NY any more. There's probably more platinum and gold coming out of Nashville and Atlanta than LA/NY.

My thoughts on the 3 year period is if you are not "making it" you could go to another market hopefully make a better living and have a better quality of living still doing the job you want to do. I'd rather be doing this in a B or C market than not doing it in an A market. Also, as I said, if you are good the work will come to you.

I live in Atlanta, even without looking for work in LA/NY, I still get to do work in LA/NY every once in awhile. None of the acts have any issue with the fact that I'm not based in LA/NY. There are many top of the line people that don't live in either city.

My other thought is based upon the current economy. I'm not a fortune teller so don't hold me to this, but every studio owner I've talked to in the last month is shi*ing in their pants about the business right now. I don't know one doing any hiring and at least two have put off buying new equipment they were planning on earlier this year. I just don't see this as a good time to pick up and move and hope to find work in a new town in one of the toughest industries there is to get in to. To me it's just common sense.

8th October 2008	#95
plexisys Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: A quiet place Posts: 1,070	Michael I certainly can't disagree with your choice. I just think it's foolish for people to think LA or NY are the center of the music business. Very few of the successful acts or albums come out of LA or NY any more. There's probably more platinum and gold coming out of Nashville and Atlanta than LA/NY. My thoughts on the 3 year period is if you are not "making it" you could go to another market hopefully make a better living and have a better quality of living still doing the job you want to do. I'd rather be doing this in a B or C market than not doing it in an A market. Also, as I said, if you are good the work will come to you. I live in Atlanta, even without looking for work in LA/NY, I still get to do work in LA/NY every once in awhile. None of the acts have any issue with the fact that I'm not based in LA/NY. There are many top of the line people that don't live in either city. My other thought is based upon the current economy. I'm not a fortune teller so don't hold me to this, but every studio owner I've talked to in the last month is shiing in their pants about the business right now. I don't know one doing any hiring and at least two have put off buying new equipment they were planning on earlier this year. I just don't see this as a good time to pick up and move and hope to find work in a new town in one of the toughest industries there is to get in to. To me it's just common sense. __________________ AnalogTubes.com - Cutsom Tube Sets Guitar-Tubes.com Crank it up A studio is a financial black hole with good acoustics.* It's only vintage if it works. Other wise it's just old crap. JS Bach or Beethoven never used auto-tune or comp tracks, nor an eq, a compressor/limiter, a reverb or a delay an analog or digital mix system. All that was achieved in the writing and performance of the music. Obviously Bach and Beethoven were doing it wrong.