nice studio being built

[ROCKINROG]

I asked the owner about an rate estimate. He said they are thinking something around a 2k USD day rate. lol Did we time warp back to the 80's?

.....and this is why the big ones in New York went bust. The labels just won't pay extreme amounts of money anymore nor will anyone with half a brain. The only big one we have here in Toronto is Metalworks and Gil Moore had to be creative and get a school going in there to get income coming in year round.

http://www.metalworksstudios.com/

[kdm]

.....and this is why the big ones in New York went bust. The labels just won't pay extreme amounts of money anymore nor will anyone with half a brain. The only big one we have here in Toronto is Metalworks and Gil Moore had to be creative and get a school going in there to get income coming in year round.

http://www.metalworksstudios.com/

Where are all of the students from these programs, Full Sail, MI in LA, etc going to work? The whole industry's model is fatally flawed imho, but that's not saying I have any brilliant ideas. lol.

[Animus]

.....and this is why the big ones in New York went bust. The labels just won't pay extreme amounts of money anymore nor will anyone with half a brain. The only big one we have here in Toronto is Metalworks and Gil Moore had to be creative and get a school going in there to get income coming in year round.

http://www.metalworksstudios.com/

damn, that's a nice studio too. 6 rooms.

[ROCKINROG]

It's a killer studio. It was originally built for Triumph to rehearse and record in and slowly got a name for itself and became semi-commercial but when Triumph split up Gil Moore (the drummer) took it over full time. The reason they are still going strong is they diversified as the times changed. They have the production company, the school along with the studios that do post,sound for film,audio tracking and mixing,mastering, DVD Authoring and animation. It's won the best studio award from 1998-2008. He also caters alot to the independent market. It's the best one around here as far as I'm concerned. My good friend Roger Ginsley does alot of the repairs and refurbishing of the Neve and SSL consoles and old Studer tape machines there.

[ROCKINROG]

Where are all of the students from these programs, Full Sail, MI in LA, etc going to work? The whole industry's model is fatally flawed imho, but that's not saying I have any brilliant ideas. lol.

There are way too many schools for this stuff and they will all end up being button pushers at some broadcast station. I went to Trebas Institute For The Recording Arts in around '92 and even then I thought it was just a revolving door to bring in easy money from Gov't grants and loans. I was fortunate enough to get into the maintenance side of it because one of my teachers was working at Sounds Interchange/DAVE TV and my buddy and I started with rebuilding old consoles and Studer tape machines for free that were being sold, and it all went from there. I was not interested in being a coffee boy or being a freelance Audio Engineer with very little pay. I was looking for a job with good money which is why I chose to wire studios and broadcast stations.