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THE RECORDING INDUSTRY

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In what seems like an eternity ago to me at this point, when a musician wanted to make a record on his own he had to price compare studios in different towns.

In what seems like an eternity ago to me at this point, when a musician wanted to make a record on his own he had to price compare studios in different towns. And those studios were often hard to find, over booked and under geared. In order to get a decent rate you often had to take the graveyard shift hours.

I remember the first studio session I ever had there was an amazing 4 tracks of state of the art Ampex 1” tape rolling. It was great we could lay down the entire band live on two tracks and had two left to be able to either bounce in some things and try over and over until the mix on that bounce was right or we could just sing in the vocals and be done with it.

A couple days later we went back to pick up the acetate master or the cassette tape of the songs so we could approve the cutting of the master to stamp out the actual 45 RPM records that took about six weeks to come back from some secretive place across the country.

Today, anyone with a PC and a little talent can have 64 tracks of pristine digital audio at their fingertips. You can lay down everything on its own track and keep adding track after track until it is all there and then you can add plug-ins and tweak it and loop it until you have a technical masterpiece on your hands.

Instead of the main studio room I used back then which was 25 feet wide by 50 feet deep and had a 20-foot high ceiling. Today’s studios are often small production places not much larger than a bedroom with an isolation booth.

Technically, you are going to get a lot cleaner and nicer sounding bit of music with a lot more complexity and almost non-existent back ground noise floors with no hiss at all. It’s hard to argue the sonic quality that you can get these days with a minimum of equipment.

But even with all those advances that are out there I would still personally like to listen to the Beatles Sgt. Pepper album, which was cut on a bare minimum of tracks. It has soul it has feeling and you can feel the love that went into that project. If you listen to it side by side with one of today’s Hip-Hop tracks, you can feel what is missing.

Taking time to visit places like myMusicCircle can give you help, guidance and years of experience at your fingertips.

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<h1>THE RECORDING INDUSTRY</h1> Author: <a href='http://www.articleseen.com/profile_smith001.aspx'>smith001</a> In what seems like an eternity ago to me at this point, when a musician wanted to make a record on his own he had to price compare studios in different towns. And those studios were often hard to find, over booked and under geared. In order to get a decent rate you often had to take the graveyard shift hours.

I remember the first studio session I ever had there was an amazing 4 tracks of state of the art Ampex 1” tape rolling. It was great we could lay down the entire band live on two tracks and had two left to be able to either bounce in some things and try over and over until the mix on that bounce was right or we could just sing in the vocals and be done with it.

A couple days later we went back to pick up the acetate master or the cassette tape of the songs so we could approve the cutting of the master to stamp out the actual 45 RPM records that took about six weeks to come back from some secretive place across the country.

Today, anyone with a PC and a little talent can have 64 tracks of pristine digital audio at their fingertips. You can lay down everything on its own track and keep adding track after track until it is all there and then you can add plug-ins and tweak it and loop it until you have a technical masterpiece on your hands.

Instead of the main studio room I used back then which was 25 feet wide by 50 feet deep and had a 20-foot high ceiling. Today’s studios are often small production places not much larger than a bedroom with an isolation booth.

Technically, you are going to get a lot cleaner and nicer sounding bit of music with a lot more complexity and almost non-existent back ground noise floors with no hiss at all. It’s hard to argue the sonic quality that you can get these days with a minimum of equipment.

But even with all those advances that are out there I would still personally like to listen to the Beatles Sgt. Pepper album, which was cut on a bare minimum of tracks. It has soul it has feeling and you can feel the love that went into that project. If you listen to it side by side with one of today’s Hip-Hop tracks, you can feel what is missing.

Taking time to visit places like myMusicCircle can give you help, guidance and years of experience at your fingertips.

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