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Originally Posted by Thee Alex
I wouldn't ever charge anyone to record them (and I don't think I ever have), instead I try to encourage people to do it themselves and waste no money at all on paying the soon-to-be-extinct local 'demo studio' types to press a few buttons.
I am GLAD that local studios are mostly going out of business - The reason? Cos most of them were shite and tried to make bands think that only 'engineers' could possibly understand what was going on.
Home recording and DIY is a great thing. People getting bogged down on what gear is good is not. Afterall, you can't polish a turd....well you can, but you get a smeared turd and a shitty cloth.
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people have been saying that demo studio's are on their way out since the introduction of cassettes, there are still plenty. There are a shortage of really good studio's with excellent professional gear.
I think purpose of excellent gear is to capture the most natural possible recording, not to make it hyped or larger than life as cheap equipment tends to do, all though good studio's will have options for more coloured sounds as well. For example a cheap condensor like the behringer B1 has a hyped top end, and a poor off axis response, imagine you're tracking a singer with an acoustic guitar at the same time, the spill from the acoustic will sound terrible.
To me, gear is not as important as performance, and there are plenty of badly recorded albums that i love.