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rodental ago

It's not that good, imho, and I've been producing music in my house for 20 years. Don't know about the videos, but an amateur could easily produce music of that quality with an off the shelf program and a couple grand in gear.

bopper ago

Sorry to ask again, but I'm gunning for an answer. What then would be the difference between what's involved in a 'Beyonce' (gross) level recording and what you are talking about?

rodental ago

Dozens of hours of post production with pro tools and half a million dollars of equipment? That said, there's nothing fundamentally different between pro recording and amateur, the pros just generally have a lot more time and money to tweak things, and better equipment, and employees to do the grunt work.

bopper ago

By this logic (amateurs can produce pro quality) then the pros are wasting a lot of time and money, money justified only by "extra tweaks" and "better equipment." Can these really make that much of a difference on the unknowing and unsuspecting general consuming public?

And why aren't I going to work by now?

Antiracist10 ago

The difference is amateurs have to muster up passion and use their limited time to produce their product, while professionals get paid to spend a lot of time working on things.

If you are some big time musician, and you want your music to be produced and released quickly, do you pay a lot of money to some guy who does this all day five days a week, or do you pay little money to hobbyist who can work on it on his free time when he's off work and when he feels like it?

It's not a matter of what the final product looks like. It's a matter of how reliably and quickly you want to get to that final product.

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bopper ago

Bingo. I think you finally answered my question! Thanks so much. I knew there was something I was being dumb about :) And thanks for not getting irritated w/ me! (To me this is very much linked to pizzagate in regards to how much money is/was involved.)

I guess the deal is with a pro studio everything is set up and ready to go, a joint effort, so bigger bang for less buck (I guess relatively) etc. For example, I'm in graphic design and marketing. As a business do I want to hire an ad agency and get it knocked out (but still w/ quality) or use a freelancer and drag it out and take my chances. Thanks again.

rodental ago

Well, that's my opinion, you are free to disagree. That said, most albums below the 'famous' level are recorded in small private studios like mine, and they sound great. Also, go listen to 'ghosts' by NIN. That was done mostly on a laptop, and is way more complex than this psychsynth bullshit.

bopper ago

I'm not disagreeing, just trying to figure it out, was genuinely wanting some pro opinions.

That said, most albums below the 'famous' level are recorded in small private studios like mine, and they sound great. Also, go listen to 'ghosts' by NIN. That was done mostly on a laptop, and is way more complex than this psychsynth bullshit.

I'm sure. Do you remember about Boston, how he produced those songs on their debut album? Then I'll leave you alone :)

rodental ago

Well, anyways, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. This doesn't sound like a particularly great to me after 20 years of recording and 30 of playing music, but that's admittedly my opinion.

bopper ago

None of my comments were disagreeing in any way. I was simply trying to get some expert advice. You might have taken these attempts as me being adversarial, that was not the case. Anyway, thanks for your thoughts.