Selling recording gear to the clueless

[dastrick]

Does this mean that I'm going to have to hire a chauffeur? Because I'm not a professional driver and my wife is definitly not.

 

[Roguetitan]

looks like the OP opened a can-O-worms

 

[omtayslick]

Maybe they should stop making stoves too so more people go out to eat.

This has got to be the quote of the week!

 

[PieBot]

I'll try and keep them coming!

-Eric

 

[Supercreep]

Why are music stores continually selling recording equipment to song writers and performers that have no idea about what they are getting into and then promise results beyond comprehension. Recording and capturing artists performance is an art by itself. Those of us who have spent years honing our craft in large and small studios get tired of explaining that you will never be satisfied until you seek our professional help. We use quality equipment and have the skills for infinitely superior results. Much better than that little digital recorder you have tucked under your arm and got sucked into buying. You can have your project comfortably finished in a timely matter that fits your schedule for release. Spend your valuable time writing and rehearsing your material. You have to do it anyway and purchase the quality needed in this competitive market. Wasting your time trying to 'master' a doomed basement/bedroom recording is unproductive and disheartening. Garbage in, garbage out. It is certainly not in the best interest of the artist. Great song writers in the past did not need these 'toys' for great songs to develop. They spent their time creating and perfecting their art then used recording studios to aid in promoting and showcasing their material. If you are having trouble with your band in the box or you do not know the difference between a mac or PC, don't let that idiot sales person at your local music store steal your money, and tell you that this amazing little box will record all your music, easily and with great quality, instead, ask him for the name of a reputable recording studio in the area or the less expensive home studio entrepreneur for your demo and get the job done and out the door. Your time is also worth something and missed opportunities and crappy production will get you nowhere. We can do a hell of a lot better job than doing it yourself on that piece of sh** and in the end cost you a lot less! Support your local studio. You will be surprised at how much they know and the shortcuts to fit the budget.

Yeah. Your studio is so awesome you forgot to tell us about it.

You probably didn't want us to see the list of awesome recordings you've made in your awesome studio.

Which is why you don't have a webpage listed.

Until such time as you do, you are a merely a fart in the wind.

 

[Richard Monroe]

Yeah, I'm feeling like I did it all wrong, now. Wow, the $40,000 or so I've spent on gear could have been given to some real professionals like the original poster to wave his magic wand in front of me, and he would have given me a genuine red book master. Then I would own nothing, I would know nothing, I would have learned nothing, and I would have nothing to share, except how fracking great it is to be a pop superstar with a few Grammys and some platinum albums. I knew I was missing something. Thanks from freeing me from all that tedious stuff about standing waves, parametric EQ, impedence matching, line level shifting, room conditioning, gain staging, etc. I wanted to be dependent on the real pros who won't tell me what they are doing, so I can just give them all my money for the rest of my life, and have no artistic input into the finished product my name would be associated with. After all, I have no need to know, they can do it all for me- for a price. Wow, it makes you feel like... a woman in Saudi Arabia.-Richie

 

[dastrick]

I wonder if the OP is coming back.

 

[Roguetitan]

I vote this the best troll thread of the year!

 

[darrin_h2000]

I do see a silver lining...I had wished that all my purchases in my first 2 years of this hobby was restricted to books on the subject...then Id had started buying quality right away instead of so much trash just trying to get started.