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It's not just big New York studios that are feeling squeezed. Even in Philadelphia, where the rent is a lot cheaper, the past decade has been a struggle for many studios.
Engineer Brian McTear runs Miner Street Recordings. He's been working with indie rock bands in Philadelphia since the 1990s. And business was good — until the credit crunch of 2008.
"All of a sudden, we were stuck. I had nobody that could pay me anymore," says McTear. "And everyone wanted to pay me, everyone wanted to make these records. I just had to go this extra distance of helping them figure out where they would get money from."
Sometimes, that meant showing bands how to appeal directly to their fans online to raise money for the recording. Then, earlier this year, McTear launched the Weathervane Music Organization, a nonprofit that helps artists record one song in his studio for free, while Weathervane documents the project on video.
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it's the engineer today stupid
the gear/cost disparity has been equalized to the 90th percentile and no one can live on just being a "tracking room" that always accounted for a small % of the budget
when i track i go to a 2200 sq foot 14 foot ceiling un HVAC'd "warehouse" room that has api , chandler, a design, altec..etc etc preamps and neuman, aea, beyer, akg, rca et al mikes..for rates we could never match even in 1968..
DARWIN..THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTESTthumbsup
