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Originally posted by Jay Kahrs
I would work at whichever of those places had the better mics, rooms, and the big one is whatever place I feel most comfortable at. I don't care what the gear and rooms are like. If the staff sucks and the enviornment isn't good I won't feel motivated to work. Based on the lists you posted, both of those rooms would be up to snuff for me. I would bring a few compressors to the first studio but only because a lot of the stuff they have is very similar. |
The question specifically stated "knowing nothing else about them." And you made a choice about how you'd approach at least one of them.
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| What I really look for gear wise for is a good desk, at least 6 channels of non-sucky compressors (that aren't all the same or very similar) and at least two good effects boxes. |
And what I'm trying to get at is, what is a "non-sucky compressor," a "good" effects box etc.? Where does the line fall?
[QUOTE][B]If I'm tracking I' like to see at least 4 channels of good pres and then I'll use the desk for everything else and maybe bring a couple from my own stash if I really need to. But if I need to bring a lot of pres just to avoid the console, chances are pretty good that the console sucks like a Hoover and I wouldn't book the room in the first place. Honestly, I don't think I've ever booked a studio and not brought at least a few pieces of gear with me. [QUOTE][B]
And again we're dancing around what s tudio might have that would make you say, I don't need anything they haven't got.
[QUOTE][B]I'd say that 85% of the bands that book my place have no idea what the hell I'm using. Once in a while I'll have someone say "I've seen pictures of these before" but they STILL ask me what the Funk Logic Algorhythmic Prosecutor does and I just smile and tell them it's my secret weapon.[QUOTE][B]
LOL
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| If you want to know what my "can't live without" pieces are, that's a whole other thing. |
Actually, it's pretty much teh same question. If the studio had those things, it'd be more likely to be one you'd use, all other things being equal. And I know all other things are never equal.... For that matter, another form of the question would be, what do I have in my own place that I'd feel less capable without? Or what do I have that I'd take somewhere else if they didn't have one?