tlarkin
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Oh I know it...the music industry is pretty tough to make a profit in. The thing is, not all big name bands do their work in a studio...the ones working at home are usually a bit smarter about things.
Also, Audio isn't like video...it doesn't take that long to process everything. If you're using a DAW, you usually apply the effects and tweaks one at a time, one track at a time...or in many cases even in real time as the song plays. Adjusting the whole mix doesn't happen as often(though it's definitely a factor) If you're using analog or outboard equipment, which is still VERY common, then all the computer needs to do is record the final or near-final product in digital form, which is relatively easy, and possibly control some of the equipment. The longest you should have to wait on the computer to work is when you're waiting on the file to be converted from a project to an audio file. Having a virus scanner in the background would make almost no difference in productivity. You're not going to be plugging in external drives while you're working anyway...
well I am not an expert in audio engineering, and hell I couldn't even cut a few tracks in garage band, let alone pro tools, DP, or logic....I could fumble around and maybe after reading a few tutorials catch on to it. I catch on pretty damn fast.
However, I have a vast amount of computer and network knowledge and I set this stuff up for studios all the time, including configuring network back ups, audio hardware (digidesign, and other name brand stuff) M-audio cards, set up switch boards, and other I/O....
When I was doing work for a buddy who was recording there I got to hang out and watch them record, and they had songs that were manipulating multiple tracks at once, and I mean multiple over 50+.... Now if you use DP, it has a feature called freeze track, which allows you to freeze tracks if you are done messing with them, thus telling the computer hardware to not render that track until it is unfrozen. Allowing for people to record and manipulate audio with much lower hardware specs. However, nothing beats doing it all at once in real time. You have a valid point, and maybe I am talking above what the home brew recording studios do, and I am comparing them to a professional that would charge you for their time, on a professional level as in the guy pays his bills doing that.
This was one of the songs off their album they recorded, and it was like 2 years ago maybe...
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