| A buddy of mine at work was telling me about someone who's charging $9.99/minute to run audio through his plate. I've had prospective clients email me about running their multitrack DAW sessions to my 2" machine, or their finished mixes to my 1/2" machine.
It's kind of sad, but the gear manufacturers have discovered that making cost-effective, fad-based gadgets and marketing them to beginners by telling them "it's not your lack of skill that keeps churning out bad-sounding recordings, it's your lack of 'pro' gear" is a lot more lucrative than creating original and great-sounding products and selling them to experienced professionals.
Most people (clients) want easy, cheap, and instant results; quality, originality, and musicality be damned. |