The digital revolution has claimed another victim.

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Don Zientara, owner and chief engineer of Inner Ear Studios, where many of D.C.'s best bands (and most of the records on Dischord) have been recorded, is closing down his studio due to lack of business.
 
Another one bites the dust, and another one down and another one down, another one bites the dust.

Before to long you will only have to think of the song, and the electronic impuleses from your brain will be transfered into MindTools (mac only) and then you will sell it on itunes for $.05.
 
Dude this post is kind of depressing. Can't we talk about something else? If we can't, i have a question. If these studios are closing, is it because of bands going to big time studios in new york and la? or is it because alot of big bands (limp bizkit, metallica, etc) recording with their own producer (or no producer) in their own studio and sending it off to a big time studio for mastering? is it both of these factors or is there more to it?
 
It doesn't take millions to make an album anymore. Labels are going to eventually be distributors, and with mp3's who knows.

Supply and demand. There are now studios in every other house where I live. So the stuido down the street has very little demand. So the studio lowers its price, installs a starbucks, and says "free hour of recording with any latte".
 
boomtap said:
It doesn't take millions to make an album anymore. Labels are going to eventually be distributors, and with mp3's who knows.

Supply and demand. There are now studios in every other house where I live. So the stuido down the street has very little demand. So the studio lowers its price, installs a starbucks, and says "free hour of recording with any latte".
lol. i fuckin hate latte's
 
MadAudio said:
Don Zientara, owner and chief engineer of Inner Ear Studios, where many of D.C.'s best bands (and most of the records on Dischord) have been recorded, is closing down his studio due to lack of business.

Shit! The next thing you gonna tell us is that the 9:30 club is no longer open! I can still smell F street even though I haven't been there for 10 years!
 
dwillis45 said:
Shit! The next thing you gonna tell us is that the 9:30 club is no longer open! I can still smell F street even though I haven't been there for 10 years!
It's still open, but in a completely different building. The only thing left of the old 9:30 Club is the facade on F Street. There's a condo going up there now.
 
KonradG said:
Dude this post is kind of depressing. Can't we talk about something else? If we can't, i have a question. If these studios are closing, is it because of bands going to big time studios in new york and la? or is it because alot of big bands (limp bizkit, metallica, etc) recording with their own producer (or no producer) in their own studio and sending it off to a big time studio for mastering? is it both of these factors or is there more to it?

I think that is the biggest factor. Some bands have become smarter realizing that the budgets for those big fancy $500.00 an hour studios come out of their own pocket at the end of the day. I think the industry is gripping because the days of putting young and clueless musicans into debt to line the companies profits are coming to an end. Limp and Metallica may have had something to do with it, but it's probably all those acts we'll never hear of (because they flopped) that went from being starry eyed and excited to enter a pro studio to telling the record company they can record and release their own material that had something to do with it.

Evenessence is recording their follow up to "Fallen" in Little Rock at the singers new house. They bought or rented all the equipment they need and are working at their own pace. Now even though they sold 10 million records and have the money to spend wasted hours in the studio why would they? If you were Amy Lee would you?
 
MadAudio said:
It's still open, but in a completely different building. The only thing left of the old 9:30 Club is the facade on F Street. There's a condo going up there now.

That's sad. I remember seeing Camper Van Beethoven there and many others including a solo performance by Robyn Hitchcock.
 
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