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Exactly this. I've made a similar transition and I'll say one thing: we web people at least don't have to deal with declining customer incomes. The worst part

Exactly this. I've made a similar transition and I'll say one thing: we web people at least don't have to deal with declining customer incomes. The worst part about being in the audio (live and recorded) biz was not only the bottom up effect, but the fact that the ROI of the average recording was plummeting (at least from where I was sitting, for the artists I was working with). People/Clients still make money on the internet, even off $50-100k plus builds. $50k on a pro studio album would be damn near impossible to recoup these days, from what I've seen.

kevincennis 13y ago
It'll be interesting to see if the web starts to follow the trend I saw in recording. Basically, a lot of clients would come to me to track drums and maybe guitars. They'd pay for a nice room, good mics, lots of guitar amps, and someone who knew how to use them. Then they'd do vocal overdubs, bass, synth and occasionally guitars at home. And they'd usually bring bit back for me to mix. I sort of like the model of "pay an expert to do the hard stuff, and do the rest on my own".
- te_chris 13y ago
  Yeah I've definitely seen that as well, get a couple of days in the studio to get a great drum sound then beg, borrow enough gear to get passable synth, gats etc. It makes sense, I just hope more models emerge to recoup some of the lost CD earnings, but they don't really seem to be. It's quite sad actually, the number of my friends who are now considering retraining as developers because the state of the music industry is so shitty.
te_chris 13y ago
How did I say anything worth being downvoted here?
- ScottBurson 13y ago
  Beats me. Maybe someone misclicked; it happens. I've upvoted you, FWIW.
- kevincennis 13y ago
  Weird. Mine got downvoted a couple times too. It would be great if people would take the time to point out whatever it was that they found to be objectionable.

kevincennis 13y ago

It'll be interesting to see if the web starts to follow the trend I saw in recording. Basically, a lot of clients would come to me to track drums and maybe guitars. They'd pay for a nice room, good mics, lots of guitar amps, and someone who knew how to use them. Then they'd do vocal overdubs, bass, synth and occasionally guitars at home. And they'd usually bring bit back for me to mix. I sort of like the model of "pay an expert to do the hard stuff, and do the rest on my own".

te_chris 13y ago
Yeah I've definitely seen that as well, get a couple of days in the studio to get a great drum sound then beg, borrow enough gear to get passable synth, gats etc. It makes sense, I just hope more models emerge to recoup some of the lost CD earnings, but they don't really seem to be. It's quite sad actually, the number of my friends who are now considering retraining as developers because the state of the music industry is so shitty.

te_chris 13y ago

How did I say anything worth being downvoted here?

ScottBurson 13y ago
Beats me. Maybe someone misclicked; it happens. I've upvoted you, FWIW.
kevincennis 13y ago
Weird. Mine got downvoted a couple times too. It would be great if people would take the time to point out whatever it was that they found to be objectionable.