Cheap Audio Production

Posted by michael on Friday May 2, 2003 @04:03AM from the get-what-you-pay-for dept.

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?"

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Re:ProTools is a large reason modern music sucks by dash2 · 2003-05-02 04:15 · Score: 5, Funny

I think you mean "Life after Love". If you believe in Love after Life, then you're pretty twisted.
On a related note... by liquidsin · 2003-05-02 04:32 · Score: 5, Funny

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?

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