The reality is, most engineers can create a great mix just using the stock plugins that come with the DAW.
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What they really need to do, is learn how to mix and use what you have. Sound engineers have a saying that goes, “It’s not the gear, it’s the ear.” Probably a cheaper life lesson than endlessly buying gear.
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I disagree.įor those suffering with G.A.S for their home studio I’d say, try booking a professional recording studio without an engineer and see how it goes lol. For which Sweetwater conveniently to them claim there is no cure for lol. Do you have G.A.S – Gear Acquisition Syndrome?īuying more gear than you need is so common that there is even a name for it, Gear Acquisition Syndrome or G.A.S for short. Pretty soon after most people buy gear to start a home studio, they realize, their recordings don’t sound great. Who do you think will sound better? The guitar doesn’t magically make the kid better. Then Jimmy Hendrix came along and had only a $100 guitar. It’s like if a kid who never played guitar before bought a 10k guitar. The gear is just one piece of the puzzle. What a lot of musicians forget is that you’re just buying the gear. Each sound needs to be EQed, mixed and balanced against every other sound in the mix, not just individually. Even if you’re working with pre-mixed loops, those loops aren’t taking into account the other sounds in your song. Even if you buy a beat online, 99% of the time, that beat isn’t mixed and won’t hold up to commercially mixed tracks. Mixing Hip-Hop, R&B, Pop and Dance/EDM isn’t that much easier since you can often have 50 tracks or more to mix with each other and each sound often has to be punchy and big while still working with all the other sounds in the mix. We haven’t even got to the other instruments yet. That means EQing each sound to sound like the source in a way that will work in a mix with other instruments. Then you have to mix all 12 mics together to make them sound like the one thing you heard live, the drum kit. You might have a stereo pair of overheads, top and bottom snare mics, hi hat mic, kick drum in, kick drum out, hi-tom, mid-tom, floor-tom, left rear room mic, right rear room mic and we haven’t even mic’ed up the rest of a typical band yet. In a studio recording, you don’t have any of the source, you’re only hearing what the microphones pick up.įor live bands in a recording studio, that means for example, often putting 12 microphones on a drum kit instead of when on a stage at a live venue, just mic’ing the kick and snare or for larger live venues, kick snare, overheads and toms. In a live mix you have a combination the source that you can hear (music coming off stage), drums, amps etc… combined with music coming out of the front of house speakers. Recording is way more detailed and the quality level is significantly higher and more complex than a live mix. What would your gigs sound like without someone on the mixing desk?
Remember that guy at the back of every music venue on the desk? Where is he in your studio? The reality is, you could buy the best gear in the world and still sound terrible. Purchase a nice microphone and nice gear, surely you can create a good recording right? Wrong Skills Vs Gear Musicians are used to buying gear to sound better.
It can take them a good 5-15 years to get good at it and that’s if they’re doing it full-time every day. Many start learning by interning at a recording studio and learning off other engineers. All sound engineers suck when they first start out. In fact, it probably takes even longer to get good at it than learning an instrument.
Sound engineering is a craft and skill just like playing the guitar, piano or learning to sing. is it possible for you to do it? Sound Engineering is a skill… That you probably don’t have. The reality is, it is technically possible, so it’s not a lie but…. Most of the guys at Guitar Center and Sam Ash would love you to believe that if you buy a DAW, this certain mic, this particular interface and a nice pre-amp you can create a professional, radio ready sounding recording. Are actual recording studios still needed? What’s the number 1 item missing in every home studio? A skilled sound engineer Gear Vs Ears His argument was, professional studios aren’t needed anymore because recording gear is cheap. After finding out I run a professional recording studio he said he doesn’t need to go to a recording studio because he has one at home. I had an interesting chat with a kid yesterday. Are actual professional recording studios still needed?
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