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postalblue
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yeah, until you lit your cigarette near the bottle, and it blew in a miniature sized mushroom. 
TexRoadkill
Audio Bum
I forgot about this thread.
A few months back I moved into a larger house where I can make a lot of noise and purchased a Radar Nyquist 24 and a Ghost 24. I still need to build the console and get some treatment up and add a few odds and ends but I'm pretty close with the gear. Another member of this BBS is putting together a website for me so hopefully I will be ready to go in a few more months (I've been saying that every month).
What is getting frustrating is that I've been offering free recording to just about every half decent musician I come across so I can mess around and tune the room and gear but I have yet to have one taker. If I can't even get these guys in for free I'm not too optimistic about how much money I can get out of the venture. Money isn't my goal, the music is. But I can't even seem to get that part rolling right now. I know musicians are flakey but this is getting ridiculous.
A few months back I moved into a larger house where I can make a lot of noise and purchased a Radar Nyquist 24 and a Ghost 24. I still need to build the console and get some treatment up and add a few odds and ends but I'm pretty close with the gear. Another member of this BBS is putting together a website for me so hopefully I will be ready to go in a few more months (I've been saying that every month).
What is getting frustrating is that I've been offering free recording to just about every half decent musician I come across so I can mess around and tune the room and gear but I have yet to have one taker. If I can't even get these guys in for free I'm not too optimistic about how much money I can get out of the venture. Money isn't my goal, the music is. But I can't even seem to get that part rolling right now. I know musicians are flakey but this is getting ridiculous.
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postalblue
New member
wtf?
these guys have shit for brains or what??
i'll take you up on that offer, tex!
only thing we need now is 4 tickets to fly my band over.
TexRoadkill said:
these guys have shit for brains or what??
i'll take you up on that offer, tex!
only thing we need now is 4 tickets to fly my band over.
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jamiecer
New member
Find your niche
I worked at an all Neve (3 room)studio in Los Angeles for a couple of years as an assistant. The studios clients we the likes of the Smashing Pumpkins, Robbie Robertson, Natalie Cole, Brian Setzer ect.. I generally worked between 75 - 100 hours per week. I never made more than 25k.
Since I left, I've been doing mostly V/O editing at my house (which I bought in Los Angeles) after leaving that studio. I work about 20-25 a week and make between 7-9k a month. My V/O editing paid for me to get a nice ProTools rig HD3 w/ 2 192 I/O's. It's overkill for V/O but I use it in my time off to record bands on speck.
My point is, everyone would like to be Elliott Schiner (BTW a very nice guy) or Tom Lord-Alge, find a niche that pays, then whore youreself to the music business until it pays off. I record 2 or 3 albums a year for indie bands. I might spent 300-400 hours with them. My deal is that they buy me a piece of equipment to help with the project (microphone, tdm plug-in ect) and give me points. The band ends up getting 300-400 hours of my time for less than a grand. Where else can you work for $2.50 an hour.
I have yet to get a record deal of any of these bands, but they walk away with a great sounding project, I get Producer/Engineer credit and still make enough with my "real job" to pay my morgage.
I worked at an all Neve (3 room)studio in Los Angeles for a couple of years as an assistant. The studios clients we the likes of the Smashing Pumpkins, Robbie Robertson, Natalie Cole, Brian Setzer ect.. I generally worked between 75 - 100 hours per week. I never made more than 25k.
Since I left, I've been doing mostly V/O editing at my house (which I bought in Los Angeles) after leaving that studio. I work about 20-25 a week and make between 7-9k a month. My V/O editing paid for me to get a nice ProTools rig HD3 w/ 2 192 I/O's. It's overkill for V/O but I use it in my time off to record bands on speck.
My point is, everyone would like to be Elliott Schiner (BTW a very nice guy) or Tom Lord-Alge, find a niche that pays, then whore youreself to the music business until it pays off. I record 2 or 3 albums a year for indie bands. I might spent 300-400 hours with them. My deal is that they buy me a piece of equipment to help with the project (microphone, tdm plug-in ect) and give me points. The band ends up getting 300-400 hours of my time for less than a grand. Where else can you work for $2.50 an hour.
I have yet to get a record deal of any of these bands, but they walk away with a great sounding project, I get Producer/Engineer credit and still make enough with my "real job" to pay my morgage.