Recording at a small independent studio runs anywhere from $20-$100 an hour, and of course you don't own the equipment.
You can get surprisingly good mics and equipment cheaply nowadays. You don't *need* high quality microphones because people will eventually just compress the stuff down to 128kbps or VBR mp3s anyway.
One of my good friends runs a youth center in his church, and they have a recording studio. He has decent mics (not budget junk, but not "high quality" either). Combined with a mac, Garage Band, and his knowledge, everything comes out sounding pretty damn good.
If you are trying to appeal to the snooty audiophiles, then yes you will need to spend way more than $5,000. But if you're trying to get the average joe to buy your album (the majority of which are NOT audiophiles), $5,000 is more than enough money to get it done.
I completely disagree. Warped Tour, Ozzfest, etc. - these things have been going for years and will be going for many more.
Keep in mind, concerts are not necessarily these huge things. I went to see Reggie and the Full Effect and some other bands at a 1,000 person venue. (I won tickets on a radio show.) Maybe 500 people were there. Tickets were $15, 20 at the door. If we assume that everybody bought their tickets in advance, those bands working together for one night pulled in $7,500. That's not bad income just on ticket sales alone.
Yes, it will probably get split up a number of ways - between the bands, the venue, etc. In the end, the big band might pull down $200-$500 per member. But that's still a week's pay in maybe one night at a small club. Bigger concerts bring bigger gains.
I wonder what the cost of a single slot in a Shoutcast server is.
Let's say a single Shoutcast slot ends up costing $1 a month, or $12 a year. A 100 slot Shoutcast server would cost $1200 a year. If that was their revenue, the RIAA would be making $126. That's not really a whole lot.
The way bandwidth and disk space is going, it's gonna be cheaper and cheaper to run Internet radio.
Well, I was factoring in stuff like buying a laptop from scratch. And then there's price. Low quality mics often result in low quality sound. A good set of drum mics with stands alone are going to run you, cheapest, $300.
There's ways you can cut corners, I'm sure, but $5,000 was a rough estimate anyways. d:
True, but most studios include engineering as part of the recording (or don't charge much extra). An experienced professional can make your music sound better than some Garage Band newbie.
The future will be "Songs are our promotion, and concerts are where the real money's at."
For about $5,000 you can buy a complete set of recording equipment - the necessary laptop, software, mics, etc. to go with your instruments. If you want to do it on the cheap, well... that's why recording studios exist. How often do you hear about recording studios going bankrupt and having an unsuccessful business model? They don't.
The RIAA is the middleman that can be cut out far too easily. All they have going for them is their marketing power, and as they lose money that will be waning as well. Artists will form coalitions, collaborations, etc. and pool their resources to get the word out - like a record label, but less concerned with selling plastic discs and more concerned about advertising.
Either the RIAA is going to reinvent itself into a successful business or it's going to collapse under its own weight. Either way, it will be interesting and the artists will survive.
That's how I imagine it would work. Honestly, do you really think that there are going to be thousands upon thousands of direct connections to the satellites? They would probably have to be sent through switches anyway, so so long as the base station's dish doesn't get tampered with it would work just fine.
10Ghz Space to Base Station, and a more stable protocol (Wireless N, 3G, etc.) to your mobile device.
You'd have to be pretty nuts to think that Russia actually intends to let Ossetia keep the land.
It's definitely NOT about reuniting Ossetia. It's either about:
a) Screwing Georgia out of land
b) Be friendly with Ossetia for economical reasons (don't important pipelines go through Ossetia?)
c) Reunite them and then reintegrate it into Russia
And if Kansas decided it was going to secede from the United States, do you honestly think they would go a week without federal troops (from different states, don't make the "Tiananmen Square" mistake) walking the streets?
As I understand it, North Ossetia (part of Russia!) and South Ossetia were once one country. North Ossetia is technically part of Russia (as South Ossetia is technically part of Georgia). I wonder how things would have went if North Ossetia declared independence from Russia?
Oh, I'm sure Russia would have just let the North Ossetians have their land back.
I'm as much against slashvertisements as the next guy, but considering how much of a behemoth the WoW machine is anything that has the potential to challenge it is newsworthy. Warhammer might equal WoW. They may even beat them eventually.
Anyone consider that the real gentleman's agreement is "Don't worry about who wins or loses, let's help each other's firms rack up as many billable hours as we can?"
Phila Lawyer helped me learn a lot about what practicing law is really like from a no bullshit standpoint, and it helped me realize that most case law is just glorified secretary work.
I know slashdotters tend to think highly of themselves, but just because we have a higher average I.Q. than most news sites doesn't make us an "intelligence community".
Blackwater is a great company. If Google really is going to use them for their floating datacenters, then it would be worth it to take Blackwater's online application.
Wouldn't he take credit for it if he organized the attacks? A victory brings in the money and the recruits, and every military needs that. Even paramilitaries.
I read it as "rocket projector", and I thought it was amazingly awesome. Like, a projector that flies across the room, shows a 1 second video, and then kills the C.F.O.
Slashdot Mirror
So far all I've figured out is that W3C has a lot of clout and you're apparently looking for gay porn in Finland.
It's scary how V for Vendetta is slowly turning from a work of fiction into a documentary.
Maybe they're all abandoned cars, the way Russia's economy is...
Recording at a small independent studio runs anywhere from $20-$100 an hour, and of course you don't own the equipment.
You can get surprisingly good mics and equipment cheaply nowadays. You don't *need* high quality microphones because people will eventually just compress the stuff down to 128kbps or VBR mp3s anyway.
One of my good friends runs a youth center in his church, and they have a recording studio. He has decent mics (not budget junk, but not "high quality" either). Combined with a mac, Garage Band, and his knowledge, everything comes out sounding pretty damn good.
If you are trying to appeal to the snooty audiophiles, then yes you will need to spend way more than $5,000. But if you're trying to get the average joe to buy your album (the majority of which are NOT audiophiles), $5,000 is more than enough money to get it done.
I completely disagree. Warped Tour, Ozzfest, etc. - these things have been going for years and will be going for many more.
Keep in mind, concerts are not necessarily these huge things. I went to see Reggie and the Full Effect and some other bands at a 1,000 person venue. (I won tickets on a radio show.) Maybe 500 people were there. Tickets were $15, 20 at the door. If we assume that everybody bought their tickets in advance, those bands working together for one night pulled in $7,500. That's not bad income just on ticket sales alone.
Yes, it will probably get split up a number of ways - between the bands, the venue, etc. In the end, the big band might pull down $200-$500 per member. But that's still a week's pay in maybe one night at a small club. Bigger concerts bring bigger gains.
Actually, it's in the wrong order. It should be "FAIL, RETRY, ABORT?", in that order.
I wonder what the cost of a single slot in a Shoutcast server is.
Let's say a single Shoutcast slot ends up costing $1 a month, or $12 a year. A 100 slot Shoutcast server would cost $1200 a year. If that was their revenue, the RIAA would be making $126. That's not really a whole lot.
The way bandwidth and disk space is going, it's gonna be cheaper and cheaper to run Internet radio.
Well, I was factoring in stuff like buying a laptop from scratch. And then there's price. Low quality mics often result in low quality sound. A good set of drum mics with stands alone are going to run you, cheapest, $300.
There's ways you can cut corners, I'm sure, but $5,000 was a rough estimate anyways. d:
True, but most studios include engineering as part of the recording (or don't charge much extra). An experienced professional can make your music sound better than some Garage Band newbie.
Very true.
The future will be "Songs are our promotion, and concerts are where the real money's at."
For about $5,000 you can buy a complete set of recording equipment - the necessary laptop, software, mics, etc. to go with your instruments. If you want to do it on the cheap, well... that's why recording studios exist. How often do you hear about recording studios going bankrupt and having an unsuccessful business model? They don't.
The RIAA is the middleman that can be cut out far too easily. All they have going for them is their marketing power, and as they lose money that will be waning as well. Artists will form coalitions, collaborations, etc. and pool their resources to get the word out - like a record label, but less concerned with selling plastic discs and more concerned about advertising.
Either the RIAA is going to reinvent itself into a successful business or it's going to collapse under its own weight. Either way, it will be interesting and the artists will survive.
Wow, the mods are rough today.
Really? I'd like to see Treacherous Computing out of Windows 7. That's one of my major concerns.
Satellite > Base Station > Your Mobile Device
That's how I imagine it would work. Honestly, do you really think that there are going to be thousands upon thousands of direct connections to the satellites? They would probably have to be sent through switches anyway, so so long as the base station's dish doesn't get tampered with it would work just fine.
10Ghz Space to Base Station, and a more stable protocol (Wireless N, 3G, etc.) to your mobile device.
It's not as funny when you don't post as AC.
Oh my, it appears that I'm a hypocrite.
You'd have to be pretty nuts to think that Russia actually intends to let Ossetia keep the land.
It's definitely NOT about reuniting Ossetia. It's either about:
a) Screwing Georgia out of land
b) Be friendly with Ossetia for economical reasons (don't important pipelines go through Ossetia?)
c) Reunite them and then reintegrate it into Russia
And if Kansas decided it was going to secede from the United States, do you honestly think they would go a week without federal troops (from different states, don't make the "Tiananmen Square" mistake) walking the streets?
As I understand it, North Ossetia (part of Russia!) and South Ossetia were once one country. North Ossetia is technically part of Russia (as South Ossetia is technically part of Georgia). I wonder how things would have went if North Ossetia declared independence from Russia?
Oh, I'm sure Russia would have just let the North Ossetians have their land back.
I say, good sir, "Woosh".
I'm as much against slashvertisements as the next guy, but considering how much of a behemoth the WoW machine is anything that has the potential to challenge it is newsworthy. Warhammer might equal WoW. They may even beat them eventually.
My guess: astronomy or lasers.
Anyone consider that the real gentleman's agreement is "Don't worry about who wins or loses, let's help each other's firms rack up as many billable hours as we can?"
Phila Lawyer helped me learn a lot about what practicing law is really like from a no bullshit standpoint, and it helped me realize that most case law is just glorified secretary work.
I know slashdotters tend to think highly of themselves, but just because we have a higher average I.Q. than most news sites doesn't make us an "intelligence community".
CD-RW?
Blackwater is a great company. If Google really is going to use them for their floating datacenters, then it would be worth it to take Blackwater's online application.
Wouldn't he take credit for it if he organized the attacks? A victory brings in the money and the recruits, and every military needs that. Even paramilitaries.
I read it as "rocket projector", and I thought it was amazingly awesome. Like, a projector that flies across the room, shows a 1 second video, and then kills the C.F.O.