Old studios with amazing gear.....what's the scoop?

[LemonTree]

Is it just a fact that (in the olden days) there wasn't any cheap gear so all studios were lined with the best of boards and outboard?

How does this stand up now to newer studios or even home recordists who, might not be getting the same results (gone are the days of recording to tape) but are coming very close with limited BUDGET equipment?

And I KNOW big studios here in Scotland still track atleast the drums and bass, maybe more to tape before dumping to digital to edit and mix (Bear)

I'm just curious on some older oppinions here

Alec (half A, Half D)

 

[bennychico11]

well, in the olden days there wasn't any such thing as cheap gear. but that's because there wasn't any such thing as a home recording studio or a computer...at least not like there is now. Consumers and musicians at the time were only interested in the actual final product....not whether or not they could do it cheaper themselves at home. More people now are more concerned in saving money than quality sound it seems (except for everyone on this forum of course ). Plus gear was just expensive 'cause it took more time to make. Things are much more efficient now with some stuff, so they can knock off 1000 units of something with just the flick of a button. But you still have real expensive stuff around studios that are custom built.

many studios still track to tape first and then bounce everything over to a DAW. everything usually turns into digital at some point in time. I would LOVE to track everything straight to analog tape and then bounce to the CD once I was done mixing on the analog board and analog outboard gear.....but the conveinence, speed, price, and capabilities of a DAW are just so damn tempting!