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Cheap Audio Production
OneInEveryCrowd writes "Rolling Stone reports that four out of five new albums are now produced by a program called Pro Tools (or similar packages) that costs $495 for the home version or $15,000 for the pro version. The article describes a fairly amazing savings in time and effort compared to the older ways of producing an album. I realize that a talented producer can cost a lot of money and some bands drink a lot of beer, but why aren't the benefits of lower production costs being passed on to the consumer?"
the benefits aren't being passed on so that the industry can maximize profit margins. Old skool.
Word.
Let Apple lead the way.
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Because you gotta pay for all that COWBELL, baby!
How else are they going to pay for J-Lo's insurance?
I think you mean "Life after Love". If you believe in Love after Life, then you're pretty twisted.
If you believe in Love after Life, then you're pretty twisted.
I dunno, Bram Stoker made a career out of that storyline.
Oh.
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I just moved into a new apartment. The rent here is lower. I was thinking that the honest thing to do would be to tell my employer that since I now have an extra hundred bucks every month that maybe I should take a pay cut, since I don't want to appear greedy. Any thoughts?
do not read this line twice.
...still cost as much or more than they ever did.
Cheap audio production is just *slowing* the increase, not a source of cost reduction.
The savings in production cost is to make up for the loss due to MP3s.
Just like movies cost so much to make up for the money lost when people sneak into more than one.
From the chronicles of Mixerman: (good read, funny)
my associative arrays can kick your hash - TCL
Where are you getting that they won't keep up development?
Anyone who is intimately familiar with this company and its products knows that Microsoft will release MS Office Pro for Redhat, Mandrake and SuSE long before Digi will release a free ProTools-lite that will run on 2K/XP
I've long said that if the major labels had offered a good online experience with no copy protection and songs at $1 a pop I would gladly pay... should I finally return to financing these crooks because after they lost the war they decided to do the right thing?
Of course not! A Slashdoter would never actually purchase something. No, a true Slashdoter would say "I sure would be willing to pay for (Goods/Services) if they would only (Criteria to be met)," then change those criteria once met so that they still feel they should not pay for said goods or services.
Sorry, this rant isn't directed at you in particular, but I've seen it alot on here recently, esp. with the advent of Apple's Music Store:
"I'll buy music online when you don't have to buy the whole crappy album."
"$0.99 a song? What a rip off! The whole CD would cost more than it would in the stores."
"Oh, only $9.99 for a whole album? Too bad I only have a Windows box"
"Oh, the Windows client is coming out at the end of the year? (Pause) WELL THEY DON'T SUPPORT OGG, SO THEY'LL NEVER GET MY MONEY!!!"
I realize that a talented producer can cost a lot of money and some bands drink a lot of beer, but why aren't the benefits of lower production costs being passed on to the consumer?
Obviously, you don't understand the problem.
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