by Flack » Thu May 24, 2012 6:18 am
For about a year I "interned" (volunteered) at a local music studio that was owned by a friend of a friend. He owned the same mixing board (a Mackie 24 channel) in his studio, so when I decided I was going to run my own in home studio, I bought what I was most familiar with. My friend's studio also had 24 tracks, but he was recording to ADAT machines. He had four of them and each one recorded 8 tracks so in theory he could have 32 tracks of music, except for the fact that one of them was broken at all times and in the shop, so he was constantly swapping them around, boxing them up, and shipping them back for repair. As a computer guy I wanted to go digital for my stuff, so that's why I bought the MOTU 24i.
While I love recording music, what I found is that I don't love working with musicians, or at least not the ones I got to work with. I have a long, wonderful tale about the experience. Remind me to tell it to you when me, you and Robb are driving to Tulsa a few weekends from now.
For about a year I "interned" (volunteered) at a local music studio that was owned by a friend of a friend. He owned the same mixing board (a Mackie 24 channel) in his studio, so when I decided I was going to run my own in home studio, I bought what I was most familiar with. My friend's studio also had 24 tracks, but he was recording to ADAT machines. He had four of them and each one recorded 8 tracks so in theory he could have 32 tracks of music, except for the fact that one of them was broken at all times and in the shop, so he was constantly swapping them around, boxing them up, and shipping them back for repair. As a computer guy I wanted to go digital for my stuff, so that's why I bought the MOTU 24i.
While I love recording music, what I found is that I don't love working with musicians, or at least not the ones I got to work with. I have a long, wonderful tale about the experience. Remind me to tell it to you when me, you and Robb are driving to Tulsa a few weekends from now.