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Led · 29th June 2009

I can only speak from my personal experience, I know nothing about other studios and am not talking about them, but I began as an assistant at a big shop. I was into programming and computers (sequencer plus anybody?) said to one of the owners in the late 80's that it would be cool to set up a room where people could work on their own stuff at home and then just bring in a disc and pump it all out through a high end system. He said to me "that home studio stuff will never catch on". So in that particular case I think an aversion to change contributed, but only a fool would overlook declining budgets as the main reason, along with the general devaluation of music as an artform. There is no way that place could operate the way it did then in today's circumstances. I still think there was some 'burying of heads in sand' that I personally saw.

29th June 2009	#3
Led Lives for gear Joined: Apr 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 2,727	I can only speak from my personal experience, I know nothing about other studios and am not talking about them, but I began as an assistant at a big shop. I was into programming and computers (sequencer plus anybody?) said to one of the owners in the late 80's that it would be cool to set up a room where people could work on their own stuff at home and then just bring in a disc and pump it all out through a high end system. He said to me "that home studio stuff will never catch on". So in that particular case I think an aversion to change contributed, but only a fool would overlook declining budgets as the main reason, along with the general devaluation of music as an artform. There is no way that place could operate the way it did then in today's circumstances. I still think there was some 'burying of heads in sand' that I personally saw.