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I've recently started producing music after a lifetime of playing guitar. As I've been building out my home studio, I've been constantly surprised by how old m
by puranjay 9y ago
I've recently started producing music after a lifetime of playing guitar.
As I've been building out my home studio, I've been constantly surprised by how old most popular studio equipment is.
For instance, one of the most popular microphones - Shure SM58 - was originally launched in 1966 and has remained unchanged since. It is still the industry standard, especially for touring
The pro audio industry is strange in that it doesn't seem to embrace change. You could pick up a producer from the 1980s and drop him into a modern studio, and he'd still end up using a lot of the same equipment
- timrichard 9y agoHmm, not sure about that. So many places have switched over to mixing and recording "in the box". I think the 80's producer would be familiar with any outboard gear, as you say, but be completely flummoxed that the computer is King, and that so much is virtualised into DAW plugins. He/she would also be baffled by the idea of "unlimited audio tracks", for starters... I remember starting with a DOS-based sequencer called Voyetra in the 80's.
- puranjay 9y agoI meant that the recording equipment itself would be familiar to any producer from the 80s. I last played around with recording software back in 2004 or 05. I think it was Cubase. I don't remember it being a particularly pleasant experience. Moving from that to Ableton has been a revelation. Modern software synths like Serum are absolutely mind blowing in what they can do.