I've been 100% music audio biz for over twenty years now. I can't stand all the changes its gone through. I've been lucky enough to have worked with the best, but thats not the important game anymore. Production deals with big record companies and producers are "all in" most of the time, so producers are getting away on the cheap more than ever and sometimes they don't come out as ahead as they would like to. Besides engineering is very easy now and anyone can do it, unless you want to work the soundstage at Sony pictures or the like. Most producers will plug it in themselves and know to stay out of the red. What else is there to do? All ya gotta do is pick a good sound if you stay in the box most of the time.
I've made a big change in my professional life and I will only focus on mixing as my bread and butter biz. I've had my face in my computer making a website for this reason for seven weeks, mainly because I'm no good at html and css. My skin is so white right now i'm turning purple.
Anyway, mixing will always be the difference between so so and great music tracks. Mixing is hard, very few know how and I don't see any software that will mix it for you in the near future. The mixing biz is safe if one can mix. I'm banking on it.
A few months back I did a 10 song mix for a dude who did his whole record in Garageband. It paid good. He even used his powerbook built-in mic in the screen for all his vocals!! I mixed the hell out of it and it sounds freakin fantastic!!. This is a new demographic and I'm a new mix engineer.
I've watched the ripples change their size, but never leave the stream.
you must be a dentist part time
GAFM ***
