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Welcome to the Future!

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>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-smallbiz-studios13-2009oct13,0,3516140.story

Thanks, Stephen.

What I think is most interesting about this article:

1. While the studio infrastructure seems to suffer a lot, the
qualified people seem to do to a lesser degree. You can now afford
professional recording facilities by equipping your computer (which
you have anyway) with a microphone (which also have dropped in price),
professional-quality audio interface and pair of speakers and be
equipped for doing the basic stuff, at least for typical "project
studio" stuff, where the only acoustic instruments you do are lead
vocals and perhaps a wind instrument. This doesn't keep you from
getting a professional to actually work this stuff, though, or at
least work for you in mixing or mastering.

2. The ignorance of these people is astonishing. To quote from the
article: "And at the time, even just 10 years ago, it didn't seem like
that could ever end, ever go away."
To put that into my own perspective:
The first album I did using the computer as more than a MIDI sequencer
was finished in 1997. I had at that time configured a computer myself:
very big (for that time) ultrawide SCSI harddisc and DDS streamer for
storage - you couldn't do even eight tracks of recording with
off-the-shelf computers back then. The computer back then served as a
multitrack recorder combined with a sequencer - synthesizers, effects
and mixing board were still hardware. The audio/MIDI interfaces were
the top range of the consumer stuff back then - there wasn't anything
affordable in professional audio interfaces at that time. This was
just the time when it was possible for someone not gifted with huge
amounts of money to do that - or to do that without specific dedicated
hardware.
Two years later (and that's exactly the "even just 10 years ago"), I
did the first album which was done entirely in the computer.
Synthesizers, mixing, effects - the only hardware stuff was the
console's micpre and the microphone.
Taking this development (and the development of computer technology in
general) into account, it actually should have been possible to see
that the "studio days" would end...soon.

         Rainer