Is there anybody here still paying for studio time ?
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I PAY FOR MAJOR STUDIOS. I ALSO GOT STUDIO AVAILBLE AT PAJAMA STUDIOS IN OAKLAND. THEY GOT REAL NICE EQUPIMENT IF YOU TRYIN TO MIX A SONG. IM TRYIN TO GET RID OF MY TIME CAUSE I NEED SOME CASH AT THE MOMENT. ANYBODY INTERESTED GET AT ME [email protected] EVEN OUR STUFF MASTERED AT MASTERDISK IN NYC BY TONY DAWSEY WHO DOES ALL ROCAFELLA RECORDS. I LIKE MY SHIT QUALITY.
Good mic pre amp + great mic into a good mixer = good sound. Its all on the users end, do they know proper compression settings and eq? Read any books on it? Probally not.
Spending about 5000 at guitar center not including cpu should get you professional quality if you know how to use it. Get it mastered and there won't be much difference between yours and major studio
Spending about 5000 at guitar center not including cpu should get you professional quality if you know how to use it. Get it mastered and there won't be much difference between yours and major studio
Yeah send out to get mixed and mastered....but nowadays cats are recording quality shit on the road on tour buses and hotel rooms wit just that cpu shit....Jim Jones recorded two albums that way (that quality is good) and Crime Mob do there whole albums that way and fruity loops. The game has change. Plus not to mention labels are just buying projects from artist so cats are on some microwave shit instead of using the oven.
Right now I use 3 different studios all of them home studios... one of them is for practice only then the other two are for real recordings...shit cost a grip...Almost makes me wanna download some free shit of the internet and do my own shit but a good engineer is something I am not right now so till then I rely on others dammit...but so far so its co
we got an engineer who got hired at 17 hertz who mixes our shit if anyone need the conctact hit me.
anyway we do all the recording at our studio we gotta booth, pro tools, m-box, and a nice mic thats about all you need. We did a whole album at a professional studio with a 1 million dollar mixing board and after the shit gets mixed/mastered it really doesn't sound THAT much better than when we got it mixed/mastered out of our own studio. Anybody need studio time hit me.
Nowadays we aint even trippin off the big studio we get it soundin coo at our own studio and give it to the engineer. We aint no major label who gives a fuck u cant even tell the difference.
anyway we do all the recording at our studio we gotta booth, pro tools, m-box, and a nice mic thats about all you need. We did a whole album at a professional studio with a 1 million dollar mixing board and after the shit gets mixed/mastered it really doesn't sound THAT much better than when we got it mixed/mastered out of our own studio. Anybody need studio time hit me.
Nowadays we aint even trippin off the big studio we get it soundin coo at our own studio and give it to the engineer. We aint no major label who gives a fuck u cant even tell the difference.
seems like some of yall confusing and blendin a lot of the aspects of recording/mixing/mastering which are all 3 seperate things and if you can do one or two of em and you good at it dont really mean you can do all three or even have the ability/means to do so.......engineering mostly consists of the recording aspect and gettin the traccs down......it kinda blurrs after that point cuz a lot of engineers also are into the full production aspect and will mix traccs as well.....in some studios a producer might take over at this point and most producers are usually overseeing the whole process whether they pushin the buttons or not.....i do most my own shit and usuallu mix my own traccs but lately been gettin behind wit so much recording goin on......main reason i will mix the tracc is when its one of my beats and especially my own song im workin on cuz i want to make sure it gets tracced out then mixed properly wit the beat......but like i mentioned above im considering takin my traccs to someone else to mix in a better environment wit better eqipment......and then send it off to a PROFFESIONAL MASTERING FACILITY.....anyone that says they mastering in they home studio on thier lil program in the front room wit the headphones or some half ass monitors and doesnt have an accoustically treated studio wit the right mastering equipment is lyin to themselves......
when its time to master im plannin on sendin my work to supa slump masters.....they know what they doin when it comes to mastering and they have a dedicated studio fo jus that......they also do replication and have a good deal if you get your cd mastered and replicated wit them.....ya cant lose like that.....
http://supaslumpmasters.com/index.php
when its time to master im plannin on sendin my work to supa slump masters.....they know what they doin when it comes to mastering and they have a dedicated studio fo jus that......they also do replication and have a good deal if you get your cd mastered and replicated wit them.....ya cant lose like that.....
http://supaslumpmasters.com/index.php
dont get me wrong the home studios are the shit if you got it set up right and know what you doin but still if you got an engineers/producers ears you learn to notice the difference in a mastered tracc than an unmastered one.....ive heard plenty of albums that sounded good witout mastering but would of really shined wit the right mastering done to em......
we've done pretty much all aspects of it... from recording in bigger studios and having the mixes done by Studio Ton... to recording in our own shit, then mixing it as well. We always send it out to be mastered. But gotta make sure the mix is right, if the mix aint right, gettin it mastered aint gonna matter, it'll still sound shitty. We used Ken Lee before... but for the past 5 years it's been Larry Funk. We still have our pro toolz set-up as well. Aint recorded in it seriously for a while.. but it's still there.
if you dont know how to mix and engineer then you should pay someone for it. You can have the best equipment in the world but if you dont know how to use it you might as well just watch retards fuck.
A Decent Professional Grade Home Studio set up will run you about 6,000... This includes a Pro Grade Mic, Preamp, Interface, Mac, Monitors, cables, etc etc. I wouldnt reccomend running Pro Tools off a PC... Mac is the professional standard for a reason.
luckily for me I get discounts on all that shit... haha
A Decent Professional Grade Home Studio set up will run you about 6,000... This includes a Pro Grade Mic, Preamp, Interface, Mac, Monitors, cables, etc etc. I wouldnt reccomend running Pro Tools off a PC... Mac is the professional standard for a reason.
luckily for me I get discounts on all that shit... haha
if its a "Real" mastering then they gonna put it through some expensive ass machine, take about 10-20 minutes and wala! there you go.
u can get the same shit on a computer program its simple...
it really dont matter to me because i aint seen a dollar off this shit yet anyway aint nobody a star here. U dont need your shit sounding like bet lol. how much money u planning on making off the shit? nobody knows who any of us are anway. maybe when u get a buzz or something do the quality shit but no point in spending all that money for nobody to hear your shit.
I was recording in a home studio...then I went into a real studio and dropped 3 tracks, and they all sounded bad! So, I went back to the home studio. My boy who went to Expressions gave me a good piece of advice, and that was, "It doesn't matter how much equipment you have or how much it costs...the only thing that matters is WHO is running the equipment."
Engineering a session is easy...I've even engineered my own sessions, lol. We drop at a home studio, mix at the same spot, and let the professionals master it. But, when recording...the only shit that matters is the mic, the program, and the engineer...everything else is there to get the job done quicker...but quality lies in the hands of the person recording the songs.
Engineering a session is easy...I've even engineered my own sessions, lol. We drop at a home studio, mix at the same spot, and let the professionals master it. But, when recording...the only shit that matters is the mic, the program, and the engineer...everything else is there to get the job done quicker...but quality lies in the hands of the person recording the songs.
Actually, it would...if the person running the million dollar console doesn't know how to work it. I've heard hella shit out of pro studios that sound a lot worse than cats who did a track on Cool Edit and knew how to tweak sounds...lmao!
My boy Nickless did some shit at 17 Hertz and it sounds lovely.
My boy Nickless did some shit at 17 Hertz and it sounds lovely.