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Originally Posted by masterblaster  Seriously... how many full-time professional tracking engineers are there? . |
well, probably MORE than there are mix engineers. Remember pop music is a TINY part of the recording world. There are generally more people recording for TV and film than are mixing for it. Same with orchestral.
For rock music - defo more tracking people than mixers... in fact I'd say there are more people making a living out of recording than mixing. RnB and Pop? dunno so much. A lot do it themselves at the low end - but on the big records? Still a lot of recordists out there.
And mixing - compared to recording properly - is easier. Mixing has it's tough areas - but generally only with poorly recorded stuff. Doing recording of the ilk of movie soundtracks or great sounding rock demands a lot of skill and experience. So does the mixing mind you.