write good music, record it as best you can?
anyone?
a good song will always carry the day, this is a rant thread.
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Well, there's a difference in being qualified to "charge for services" and being qualified to deliver those services on a "professional" level. I am wholly qualified to ask $10, $100, or $1,000 per day for my services as a recordist, as an historian, as a furniture designer, or as a brain surgeon. That someone would pay me a grand per day to design their furniture is a different thing altogether. The market in general, and individual decisions in particular, will dictate how and when my services are utilized at my costs.Jupiter 4 Studio wrote:Again, like I said before. He never said anything about people recording in general. I think his rant was more based on people charging for their services when they are not qualified to be doing so.
genius.mjau wrote:Well, there's a difference in being qualified to "charge for services" and being qualified to deliver those services on a "professional" level. I am wholly qualified to ask $10, $100, or $1,000 per day for my services as a recordist, as an historian, as a furniture designer, or as a brian surgeon. That someone would pay me a grand per day to design their furniture is a different thing altogether. The market in general, and individual decisions in particular, will dictate how and when my services are utilized at my costs.Jupiter 4 Studio wrote:Again, like I said before. He never said anything about people recording in general. I think his rant was more based on people charging for their services when they are not qualified to be doing so.
I think what really gets to Sear is that the market for what he does has been thrown open with the introduction, in part, of ultra low-cost production and materials.
His analogy is not very creative. As one who prides himself on my supreme ability to deliver the utmost in analogy goodness, I find his usage uninspiring and offensive. Analogies, and sarcasm, should be left in the hands of G.B. Shaw and Oscar Wilde. I'd really like him to pursue an advanced degree in creative writing before utilizing any more analogies. What has he done to my art?!
Fucking awesome! In short....leave the writitng to those who are qualified to do the job....fucking HACK!mjau wrote:
His analogy is not very creative. As one who prides himself on my supreme ability to deliver the utmost in analogy goodness, I find his usage uninspiring and offensive. Analogies, and sarcasm, should be left in the hands of G.B. Shaw and Oscar Wilde. I'd really like him to pursue an advanced degree in creative writing before utilizing any more analogies. What has he done to my art?!
Recording funds have dropped from $250k -$500k to $10k if you're lucky.subatomic pieces wrote:so, how exactly do you earn this "right"??? who bestows the "right" on you???Jupiter 4 Studio wrote:There are many people trying to pass themselves off as comercial studio's that have no right to.
I KNOW that Walter Sear is a genius. And, I know that some people on this board will always remember him for that after he's long gone. But, it's really sad to me to see a guy tarnish his legacy by spending his golden years playing the curmudgeon.
When I see the name "Walter Sears" now, I don't think, "ooh cool, we're gonna talk about another classic record from a legend"... My first thought is, "great, another essay about how the sky is falling."
unless you're the only guy in town and the band can't afford to or is legally bound not to cross state lines.subatomic pieces wrote:if you charge people and don't deliver to meet or exceed their expectations, they won't be back. period.
again, whose "right" is it to decide who gets to charge and who doesn't?!?!
should their be a panel that issues licenses to charge for recording work?
this is just nonsense.
if you've got the gear and you're confident that you can make clients happy, then charge them what you think that you're worth. If you're not worth that, you'll figure it out pretty quick.
A better comparison would be Van Gogh and a photocopy of VanGogh selling for the same price.Tatertot wrote:There's the old masters way of painting, with much craft and training and very respectable results, and then there's Picasso or Matisse or Van Gogh way. Those who were loyal to the ways of the old masters probably didn't take kindly to the newer, more intuitive ways of painting.
Walter Sear is the old master. Maybe Yo La Tengo in the early years was akin to Matisse. Maybe Naked City was akin to Van Gogh. I don't think we need to match artists from old times to musicians/recordists from recent times, but the point is that things change, methods evolve, life goes on.
Has anybody tried to read Harold Bloom? Like Walter Sears, he is very noble and awe-inspiring in his commitment to craft. But too large of a dose of that mentality wears me down. I feel like the new son-in-law in "Meet The Parents" around these "old masters". I guess that makes me a punk ass.
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