Downside Studio
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As a newbie on this site I probably shouldn't start this thread, but what the heck.....
On the digidesign website I kept reading about people discussing 24bit and 96Khz, Protools vs other programms, digital versus analog. I saw this on the Digidesign site and I've seen it on this site. I always got visions of real Gods with huge pro-studio's and million selling records with these guys. I was shocked to see a thread on the digi-site with people submitting links to there studiopics. These supermen turned out to be modificated bathrooms-studio owners with big stereo-installations. Not that there is anything wrong with these studio's, but why are people saying you really need to record 24bit and 96KHz if you want to have a good sounding recording if they master it with a $100 dollar behringer ????
I have had a lot of luck and am the proud owner of a commercial studio. I make a good living in the recording industry, but I don't consider myself a God. I think I'm a bozo. I have lots and lots of fun making recordings and working as a live sound-engineer. I cant and don't want to do something else. My recorders are 16 bit, and I master 16 bit. I use tubes because I like their sound. My main monitors are standing in a corner and they sound INCREDIBLE. I make the most reliable mixes on them, and had nothing but complements from other pro-mastering facilities. Still everybody with 2 penny speakers is telling me that my monitors really shouldn't be standing in a corner.
My point :
I am a pro, and I became one be doing what I like : Mixing and Listening.
I don't care for technical details and terrible rules : I want to make Killerrecordings.
So I'm trying to say I get a little tired of reading why 24bit is better than 16bit. I think we all now that. If your recording sound crappy at 16 bits it can't be fixed by recording at 24bits. You're recordings are not going to be better if you have 25 plugins instead of 24. Use your ears and try to have fun. A gitarist is going to be to frustrated to play if you mic his amp with 300 mics.
I know, because I'm a bozo. (my girlfriend told me)
On the digidesign website I kept reading about people discussing 24bit and 96Khz, Protools vs other programms, digital versus analog. I saw this on the Digidesign site and I've seen it on this site. I always got visions of real Gods with huge pro-studio's and million selling records with these guys. I was shocked to see a thread on the digi-site with people submitting links to there studiopics. These supermen turned out to be modificated bathrooms-studio owners with big stereo-installations. Not that there is anything wrong with these studio's, but why are people saying you really need to record 24bit and 96KHz if you want to have a good sounding recording if they master it with a $100 dollar behringer ????
I have had a lot of luck and am the proud owner of a commercial studio. I make a good living in the recording industry, but I don't consider myself a God. I think I'm a bozo. I have lots and lots of fun making recordings and working as a live sound-engineer. I cant and don't want to do something else. My recorders are 16 bit, and I master 16 bit. I use tubes because I like their sound. My main monitors are standing in a corner and they sound INCREDIBLE. I make the most reliable mixes on them, and had nothing but complements from other pro-mastering facilities. Still everybody with 2 penny speakers is telling me that my monitors really shouldn't be standing in a corner.
My point :
I am a pro, and I became one be doing what I like : Mixing and Listening.
I don't care for technical details and terrible rules : I want to make Killerrecordings.
So I'm trying to say I get a little tired of reading why 24bit is better than 16bit. I think we all now that. If your recording sound crappy at 16 bits it can't be fixed by recording at 24bits. You're recordings are not going to be better if you have 25 plugins instead of 24. Use your ears and try to have fun. A gitarist is going to be to frustrated to play if you mic his amp with 300 mics.
I know, because I'm a bozo. (my girlfriend told me)
