[F_or_DEAF] said:
How long do you think it should take somebody to learn all of those aspects realistically?
Nowadays, about two to three years if someone works at it every day and reads up on it. The whole "years and years" of experience is irrelevant now. The curtain has fallen, people are more DIY these days, and only those who profit otherwise from those tasks, like studio owners, will deny it (for obvious $$$ reasons).
For one thing, in the age of myspace and soundclick, the unwashed masses hear the high and the low quality in the variety of .mp3s of the stuff they listen to, from their neighbors band to the rapper across town, to the top 40 artist up in the charts...and all of those, and all that is in between, make up the contents of their iPods...and they enjoy them all the same.
But in all actuality, I appreciate those people with years of experience that are willing to share their knowledge. The smart ones have gone into design with software companies coming up with presets and teaching courses and things like that in addition to their studio work, as its about the only way to stay relevant (look at how many studios are closing, and those that have stayed at the top have branched into what I am describing).
However, I have no problem going to a major studio and letting professionals do all the recording, mixing, and mastering work for me, but I'll never do it unless someone else like a label or management is footing the bill, and even then, it would still depend on how much they want out of the sales to recover those costs before I saw a dime...and if that amount were to cost me more than it would for me to get the high enough quality outboard hardware gear and do it myself...I'd still do it myself.
So, for me, it is a take it or leave it with studios, "industry standard Pro Tools HD", and the over forty-five y/o engineer crowds with all those years of experience. I'll keep learning how to get close to a retail CD with what I have by doing an A/B comparison and practice.
I haven't been to the "big studio" in eight years when I spent twice what it would've cost me to buy the software DAW and plug-ins and do at least as good a job as the engineer at that studio closest to me did. I learned my lesson.
It's only those with a rash of audiophile snobbery that all this matters...And they wouldn't buy 95% of the music on the market anyway...including those audiophile snob wannabees that surf forums like this.
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