[pp.int.general] Protest certain musicians?

[np]

Christian Hufgard wrote:
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> Also music studio productions reach pretty fast the level of more than 100k.
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Christian: Numbers, or it didn't happen!


I don't know in which world you are living, but the times where you live
3 month in a studio with highly paid engineers are over. It has been
that that way (for top-acts only) in the 80th, but these times are over.
Nowadays - If you really need the studio atmosphere or don't have a
place to work at you don't book Abbey Rodes anymore.

Instead you write your album in your rehearsal rooms or in in a cheap
backyard studio which is around 1500€/week max..

That's called pre-production and does not cost *that* much.

Once you have your songs written and you are well-prepared you may
decide to book a better studio if you don't trust the engineer. The
actual recording for an album, for a prepared band with professional
musicans will be around two weeks.

Afterwards you go into the mixing/listening loop and finally let your
stuff get mastered at a mastering studio..

An indy band with discipline and high quality demands can produce a
whole and professional album for less than 15.000 € these days. It will
- from a technical point of view - even sound better than 99% of the
stuff that got produced in the 80th..

That's the way it is these days.. Lots of competition between studios
had their effect on the studio rates.

(Yes, there are still guys out there that burn 100k and more just to
have a studio on standby, but not everyone is Axle Rose)

Nils Pipenbrinck