Reilley said:
Suckers? It is unfortunate that you have such a low and cynical opinion of your customers. Perhaps you should let them know how you feel when you take their money.
Dont worry, I DO...
I LOVE recording
I sacrificed a LOT for it. In vain...I paid my dues, since the end of the 80's. In vain so yeah there's some sour grapes
Now its a pile of crap, and the conservatory kids do it for a bit, then give up and sell whatever they bought for half the price they bought it for to the next chump conservatory kids....wait I should say, the parents of these chumps sell to the parents of the next chumps
anyhow
Its a downward spiral of crap, and every few months as the sound quality of what you hear on the radio actually goes DOWN you can see the vets have thrown their hands up and allowed the foxes to run the henhouse
Also, the rates are in a downward spiral, since trustafarians dont need money to live, and especially when they can get gear so cheap. You really run into the situation where a kid has a 9000 in his parens pool room for 10 dollars an hour!
Now, you could be a real douche and say "well the bands will go to the better engineer no matter what the price" but history has shown that to be false in EVERY market in the US which has lost its working musicians. Kids, and their parents that are living thru them will almost always go to the cheapest, and certainly will pick friends from school to record them over anyone else.
Now, these guys turn out crap
Total squashed, compressed, hammered, mashed up, mono, bassless, pushed mid dogshit that a mastering lab wont touch.
Theyre also suckers who have drilled into them that ONLY what is currently advertised in Mix mag will allow them to record. They actually paid a school to do this drilling for them.
They are suckers by definition
Like it or not, you would be LYING if you didnt admit that the choice of DAW for suckers worldwide is PT
Its in guitar mags, on TV, in movies...Bands dont know how to tune their guitars but they heard that Joe Blow pop40 recorded in PT
Im not saying it isnt also the choice of quite competent, capable people. It IS. But it is also, and FIRMLY the only DAW known by name to suckers
Thats who rents it...we have a nice system.
We also have good stuff for rent, which is even more telling by the fact that the suckers DONT rent the other stuff.