Shoutout to you for giving credit to the original video! I’ve seen many people recreate it without acknowledging the source, but you went the extra mile. You didn’t have to, but you did-and that’s truly honorable. 👏👏
My dude I didn't know that you are in the greater Atlanta Metro. So am I and I love your videos. Especially when you talk about working with the young folk as I am 48 years young. You are talking my language when you say things like tape and analog. I use to sing hooks on rap albums. That was my life in the 90's. Now I have went digital for the most part. Midi controller and DAW is my thing now. I still enjoy my 3 stand alone stations Yamaha MOX8, Casio WK 1630 and Akai MPK mini play. On the midi controller side M Audio 88 es, MPK 261, M Audio 49 es, MPK mini mark 2, and mark 3. What I consider drum machines on midi are push 1&2 and my MPC 218 and lastly the launch pad mini. You are an inspiration to the old heads around here. Keep doing what you're doing for there's a blessing for you in it all.
I don’t want to sound like a hater, but a lot of these people doing music have NO business recording or dropping any kind of music. They are not good, they’re not trained and they don’t value raising the bar with originality and skill. When you had to actually save up money to get blocks in a studio, you took it seriously. You made sure you had your stuff on point and you went in there and made real music…because you wasn’t trying to waste time or money. That is not the case today and it’s hurt artistry. You can sit in a room and just create disposable music and not put in the effort that real artist used to do. It’s a gift and a curse forreal
Got my first job in a studio back in the 70's and think even then tape was around $80-$100 a reel. Studio time in general was around $125 an hour. To put that in perspective a McDonalds hamburger was twenty cents then, so studio time was expensive. Plus studio back then didn't have music gear other than a grand piano. Studio I worked at that because world famous only had one small rack of outboard gear, it was the console and our mic's that it was all about. I left recording and got back into playing music and music education. Around 2005 I got back into recording got a job doing editing and basic CD mastering. That was my first experience with digital recording and I put together a small home studio. It was a long way from the 70's and amazed me at what I could do at home with a Pro Tools setup, but once again I got back in to playing music. Now I'm retired and decided get into recording again for my own enjoyment and scary looking back at the quality of gear I can get for little money. Quite a different world now and everyone recording with all the AI stuff. Sad part is so many think they don't have to study and practice and build up their skills, they thing AI will do it all for them. No, the best will always be the ones who put the time in to learn, practice and develop their skills.
@@BoloDaProducer I, too, am an old-schooler. I owned a 400K studio in 1992. The hourly rate was 85 an hour with your own engineer and 110 with the engineer. Then the ax started to fall... ADAT... cheap boards ... the slide continued. In 2001, the hourly rate fell to 45 an hour with an engineer. No one wanted to buy the studio. The construction to build the studio was a total loss, and the resale of the equipment destroyed any hope of getting what I put into the studio. After I closed the operation, I received insight from an industry insider. They said how do you end up with a million dollars in the music industry? He said, Start with 2 million. So sad to all the talented people today who can't make ends meet.
same here I started in 2004 I a digital 001 I believe it was before the MBox lol......it cheaper to record at home but as a artist and engineer you need to know the gear to buy, have the ear for mixing
The money/payout for music has dramatically changed over the years as well. Going from physical media(CD), to downloading and then to streaming services, artists can’t make the same money for the same number of units anymore thus, less reason to pop in to big studios and run up the budgets. I came into music back during 2inch tape era and maintained a home studio from the days of Fostex 4trackers to the present DAW/Hybrid(analog front end) time. I see “big studios” forced to become creative to keep the cash flowing, I even invested in a few podcast mixers to catch some of that crowd. The game definitely changed from the old tape days to now.
Really liked your History lesson. Made me think about the old days of Media Sound, Hit Factory, Skyline, House of Music, and Sigma Sound. A lot went into recording back then. Mixing , Panning, Mastering, Plate making, Studio time was by the hour, and Block time. I remember having to stop a session in the middle of a track, because Nona Hendricks had booked time, and we were on her time. That meant “You’re Done!” You mentioned $300 for time. Try $3,000 in the 70’s.
Yes 🙌 sir !! You are right. Back in the days the 2inch in my neighborhood was $150.00 and the 1/4 inch for the mix down was $125. The rates were like $50 -$100 per hour. It was strictly analog 24 tracks
I miss the feel of outboard gear but lets not forget that the outboard gear needed hella maintenance, Dat machines, Adat Machines...we had DA-78's and you hqd to keep em clean, if you did a lot of smoking in ya lab then that was an issue. With all that said, i can appreciate the digital age and the amount of money spent on equipment back then is not even a fraction of the cost now. My only conplaint is the subscription era but I get it, but the hassles of havin an ilok sucked too. Had to shut my studio down because I couldnt compete with $10 an Hr at the crib back then.
Cost of entry has never been so low. RUclips make people think they can do it all themselves. People not liking the elitism in studios driving customers away and making them do it themselves.
Who needs a studio when you can record an album with a laptop anywhere, on the bus, at a cafe, by a river, on the toilet. Now there are studios in every other house.
I was signed to a production deal back in the day and the A-Room price was 275/hr. I was glad I wasn’t paying it. 😂 Jodeci recorded there, Cameo, Missy, etc. Actually met Les Paul at the studio. Cool as candy. Super nice guy. The father, literally, of multi-track recording. Only known really for his insanely great sounding guitars, but yeah he invented mult-track recording.
Drawmer Comp and Gate TDM plugin was $750. Waves Mercury TDM retail was $12000. We got a deal for $7500. With my SSL console and HVAC needed to run it, my monthly electric bill was almost $2000 back in NYC Times Square. Tape machines were a pain but they stayed in sync much more than the (3) ADAT setups.
Back in the early 2000s, I used to frequent at least 30 different major studios in burbank, w some of them being blocks from each other. Now, Only 5 of these studios remain.
Yeah it’s been a crazy transition but I will say musically the music has taken a big hit because of this. I’ve owned my own studio for a while but I learned from the big ones. Having a professional one in your house makes more sense in today’s world. If you’re trained right and know what you’re doing musically it’s a god send. But that hasn’t been the case for the last 5 years or so. So much inexperienced going on in the industry it baffles me how a lot of these products make it to the market. But I have a feeling why they do. They’ve been trying to destroy the number one art form on earth which is hip hop for a while it’s used in any and everything nowadays. Go listen to albums that stayed in one house until completion to albums that get recorded in various locations and mixed in various locations and mastered in various locations what you get is a whole bunch of competitors on one project fighting for future business. Making the album experience for the consumers very unpleasant. I hear it and you hear it all the time from people that album was all over the place. And this is why to many people on one project trying to make a name for themselves. You can’t blame that on studio revolutions that we have today. It’s how albums are being made is the problem. 20 to 40 producers on one project is diabolical up to 80 song writers on a project. The artist are not the artist anymore they’re just a walking billboard. Home studios great. The way they’re being utilized not so great. Big studios used to have a team of the same people to pump out there sound they’ve created that’s why they were big back in the days. They’ve gotten away from that now by trying to keep up with the trends and they all fall by trying to do it this way. So artists with budgets go the cheaper way if it’s all going to sound the same anyways. Being apart of this industry for a while this is why big house recording studios keep closing. They’ve gotten away from investing in talented people to put on their team and create a sound culture that people are willing to pay for.
I visited atl in 2005. I went to the underground and i saw a recording booth in there. I don't remember the price but it was by the hour and not as expensive as nyc studios. You could do a couple songs and they press you a cd.
Studios are closing due to budgets but thats only regarding hip hop/Rap/R&b. Recording studios for Rock/Country etc are still in business for the most part. Most engineers have their own studios as well when back in the day they were hired to engineer in major studios. In addition, some of us got the money to buy professional gear and build our own professional studios. But, to get your sound sonically competitive, you will need high end professional gear and a professional engineer with a good ear and a high end monitoring system. Plus, dont let me get started with Atmos surround, film sound tracks and scoring. A dusty laptop and cheap interface won't cut it.
The real truth behind recording studios closing are the plugin industries. Back in the day you had no plugins so everything had to be manually done with Tape. Digital Plugins came along and made life much easier and all you needed was a laptop. You pretty much have a plugin which replicates any audio device and people started buying Plugins. The music industry has changed and AI is now taking over.
Bolo, NOoooooooooooooooooooooo...They are closing because we no longer NEED them. It started around the Portastudio era and then again when Mackie came out with a real inexpensive mixer, and the second wave of samplers. When DAWS came out strong, now we could go headlong into directly recording at high resolution, and my first DAW was Voyetra. Whole LPS were made on Amiga, Atari, PCs,and the early versions of MAC. Instead of using my reel I can use my SVHS recorders, so I have tons of masters, and then I got an analog synth for $250. Between the 2 inch tape and the machine, I have at least 10-20 pieces of gear for the same amount of money. To add to that, They had to pay for the engineer to set up the machines, tweak the studio ,record/mix, and then maybe you got what you wanted.Now If I want to record an orchestra, then I would use a commercial studio, yet for anything else, it's not cost effective..
Most people wanted make music,but couldn't afford it.. If people dont pay for music anymore but spending 1000's to make it is just is a ruff situation😔
The best recordings that I hear come out of bedroom and live recordings like on a stage or in a orchestra setting. Studios can be anywhere as long as the mixing guy knows what he's doing.
I definitely see your point with the decline of recording studio. And you're right the equipment did get cheaper and more affordable for people. I just invested in my own Studio only because I got tired of playing with engineers and people charging me the BS
4:57 i pay $900 for the platinum from waves 🌊 i was the only person in 3 town with a paid waves plugging with protools mbox with a tlm 103 and a liquid channel 😂😂😂 still can’t not mix thr song right becauseo of the computer power it need
Great video bolo ,i saw the original video about this,for me i remember back in those days of the big studio,and we didn't have a lot of money,and the most talented people are broke,and could not get in to a big studio to Express themselves,which is hard,anyway you know what i mean.i had my first home studio in my mum's house,i was using an Atari 10 40 st with a pirate copy of cubase,oh yeah cubase use to cost about 300 pounds upwards,wasn't hearing that in 1990😂just wanted to make music.one of the reason why big studio's close down is because the the power was given to the broke and talented,now they can set up there own shit.peace bolo
Haha - as a pro-studio owner in the 80's and 90's I don't know where to start :) So I won't. But enough to say that years down the line 'everyone is a producer' sort of is the curse, because most people are not good at engineering or producing. The tools are just the tools. But you can't give a carpentry set to a kid and expect a finely crafted table. No. I rest my case. There was a reason why bands spent thousands in a studio.... quality results.
It was awesome too....awesome to see artistic freedom and accessibility to easily consume the music you wanted....but that's getting harder now because of the algorithms on the platforms we consume our music
The biggest impact in my opinion is the majority of potential clients (artists) are completely self funded now. Streaming has destroyed aspirations for artists to get record deals, killed budgets, and the labels no longer cut the check for studio time except for a small handful of top tier artists.
( You are Right ) Its all about the price of the gear $$ ..as soon as the companies started selling gear that was good at a cheap price .. everyone could record, that is one of the main reasons .. also the industry quality for good sounding music dropped off, and basically = pro gear is now consumer gear.
It could be consumer interest, the news, also depression. Music is a therapy and people lock up with artist or party… it could be because depression in the world has caused people to lose interest or not seek visions or goals… it’s a broad subject… the seventies eighties built longer lasting tracks… now a days I dont know what the problem is but I think health plays a role… also things rise and fall… I hope we can rejuvenate and restore musical interest and excitement… main thing is vision for a product that communicates in a way that people identify with it and it’s sometimes subtle sometimes fun sometimes invokes wisdom… i think there’s something supernatural to the music making process to be honest… just like babe Ruth when he hit that homer he pointed out… it’s something timely special and has power…
I RECORDED MY FIRST TRACK BACK IN 96.. WE SOME OLD MEN NOW.. HAHA.. I USED TO RECORD ON A 4 CHANNEL TASCAM CASSETTE RECORDER, AND MAKE BEATS WITH A YAMAHA PSR-540
Yes Bolo home studios are the ticket. You can invest more into yourself. I have a great setup and charge a very reasonable price for local talent to have great quality.
The elephant in the room is that most of the music being made SUCKS…I scroll through these RUclips “beat makers” and it ALL sounds like one giant mashup of the same sample packs 😢
They don’t wanna hear the truth lol! Making the ability to create music way too accessible, hurt the ART of making GOOD music. There’s a lot of people making music, but there are not a lot of actual artist.
Studios today aren't that successful because many of them are opening thinking about money only and not the clients. A producer and engineer is what makes the clients come and stay!!!! Bigger studios are still around when and if they are used for certain gear and room sound but yes now we can record anywhere and then send it to people to mix so that's good!!!
Anybody know about the H2O, AIR, Paradox, and Audiowarez crack groups? lol Collecting cracked plugins was an addiction in itself in the late 90's into the 2000's.
Another topic for you Bolo: The big studios and labels are working on consolidate the music industry. Check out the Top Music Attorney's channel on RUclips, for the latest information- We all know there is a "legal side" to the music business and industry.
That was actually the channel that I watched about this whole thing regarding studios closing! Appreciate you bolo for giving a shout out to small channels and actually siting when reacting!
First off they charge too much money. And studios don't never help the artist especially new artist. And taking all your money. I charge for recording.
Well… the studio is just the facility, they are there to simply they have space we’re creators can create. It’s on the artist to facilitate the talent around them.
It’s not the studios responsibility to do anything for the artist outside of studio time. There are studios around that offer services to help artists but it’s not common.
were closing or still closing? Initially I feel like the internet and piracy had an affect too, at least with major studios as well as technology making studio obsolete, especially if you knew what you were doing. Back in the day you could get cd or cassettes made and sell them out of your car and make some money back if you were an independent artist trying t make something happen, thats dead now...nobody hardly even owns a cd player or cassette player, everything is streaming and we know you need a gazillion streams just to make 10 dollars lol, but technology put studios in the hands of a lot of people, and if youre recording yourself now and remember the days when you have to rent studio time you know how much better it feels not to have to watch the clock in the studio, one could also argue that being on the clock made you much more focused on getting things done versus starting a ton of ideas and " getting back to them". And lets be honest, back in the day most people renting studio time knew you had to possibly come back and mix your song later and pay for that time, now artist usually want a mix as soon as the session is done..they want it all done and would be ok with a 15 to 20 minute mix versus taking your time and really mixing it like back in the day. A lot of the real artistry is gone too, " throw on the autotune and record me in one or two takes", at the end of the day...people are just not trying to spend money in the studio.....or pay for music. or plugins....or movies....or for anything if possible lol
Party city is closing all its stores. Yellow trucking company filed bankruptcy after 100 years in operation. If you can withstand these times you might be alright after all this blows over.
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bro i asked you b4 what daw or hardware ypu recommend???? you never responded????? i use to rock on logic, im about to jump back in......looking for some direction??????/
Streaming killed off music as a way to make a living for quite a lot of musicians. When there is no money there is no way to afford recording in a studio.
They are closing because there is not enough money in it anymore. The money is in music equipment hardware and software sales now. So close your studios and open a music store. 😂
I was literally joking with my buddy earlier that we should put our s*** on cassette tapes. People could still copy the music without paying for it but it will take a few more steps😂
Shoutout to you for giving credit to the original video! I’ve seen many people recreate it without acknowledging the source, but you went the extra mile. You didn’t have to, but you did-and that’s truly honorable. 👏👏
Appreciate that!
It's obvious Bolo, you can pretty much do all your post-production right in the crib. Cost alot less nowadays. 😊
True 👍🏾
💯💯💯🙏🏿@@BoloDaProducer
And that's a fact! There's nothing like having your own studio 💯
My dude I didn't know that you are in the greater Atlanta Metro. So am I and I love your videos. Especially when you talk about working with the young folk as I am 48 years young. You are talking my language when you say things like tape and analog. I use to sing hooks on rap albums. That was my life in the 90's. Now I have went digital for the most part. Midi controller and DAW is my thing now. I still enjoy my 3 stand alone stations Yamaha MOX8, Casio WK 1630 and Akai MPK mini play. On the midi controller side M Audio 88 es, MPK 261, M Audio 49 es, MPK mini mark 2, and mark 3. What I consider drum machines on midi are push 1&2 and my MPC 218 and lastly the launch pad mini. You are an inspiration to the old heads around here. Keep doing what you're doing for there's a blessing for you in it all.
I don’t want to sound like a hater, but a lot of these people doing music have NO business recording or dropping any kind of music. They are not good, they’re not trained and they don’t value raising the bar with originality and skill. When you had to actually save up money to get blocks in a studio, you took it seriously. You made sure you had your stuff on point and you went in there and made real music…because you wasn’t trying to waste time or money. That is not the case today and it’s hurt artistry. You can sit in a room and just create disposable music and not put in the effort that real artist used to do.
It’s a gift and a curse forreal
Tape head calibration, tracking, mixing, bounce down, sync, engineer, use of facility, security system, camera monitoring, musicians, cleaning
Facts!
We can still acquire those bills in a home studio too, if we get carried away
Got my first job in a studio back in the 70's and think even then tape was around $80-$100 a reel. Studio time in general was around $125 an hour. To put that in perspective a McDonalds hamburger was twenty cents then, so studio time was expensive. Plus studio back then didn't have music gear other than a grand piano. Studio I worked at that because world famous only had one small rack of outboard gear, it was the console and our mic's that it was all about. I left recording and got back into playing music and music education. Around 2005 I got back into recording got a job doing editing and basic CD mastering. That was my first experience with digital recording and I put together a small home studio. It was a long way from the 70's and amazed me at what I could do at home with a Pro Tools setup, but once again I got back in to playing music. Now I'm retired and decided get into recording again for my own enjoyment and scary looking back at the quality of gear I can get for little money. Quite a different world now and everyone recording with all the AI stuff. Sad part is so many think they don't have to study and practice and build up their skills, they thing AI will do it all for them. No, the best will always be the ones who put the time in to learn, practice and develop their skills.
You have some great points here about the history of recording. Thank you for sharing!
@@BoloDaProducer I, too, am an old-schooler. I owned a 400K studio in 1992. The hourly rate was 85 an hour with your own engineer and 110 with the engineer. Then the ax started to fall... ADAT... cheap boards ... the slide continued. In 2001, the hourly rate fell to 45 an hour with an engineer. No one wanted to buy the studio. The construction to build the studio was a total loss, and the resale of the equipment destroyed any hope of getting what I put into the studio. After I closed the operation, I received insight from an industry insider. They said how do you end up with a million dollars in the music industry? He said, Start with 2 million. So sad to all the talented people today who can't make ends meet.
same here I started in 2004 I a digital 001 I believe it was before the MBox lol......it cheaper to record at home but as a artist and engineer you need to know the gear to buy, have the ear for mixing
The money/payout for music has dramatically changed over the years as well. Going from physical media(CD), to downloading and then to streaming services, artists can’t make the same money for the same number of units anymore thus, less reason to pop in to big studios and run up the budgets.
I came into music back during 2inch tape era and maintained a home studio from the days of Fostex 4trackers to the present DAW/Hybrid(analog front end) time. I see “big studios” forced to become creative to keep the cash flowing, I even invested in a few podcast mixers to catch some of that crowd. The game definitely changed from the old tape days to now.
Everything is closing. The world has gotten themselves in a great big hurry, and it isn't for the best.
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Thank you, sir!!! ✊🏾
Very welcome 🔥🔥🔥
Microwave society is spot on for real.
Really liked your History lesson. Made me think about the old days of Media Sound, Hit Factory, Skyline, House of Music, and Sigma Sound. A lot went into recording back then. Mixing , Panning, Mastering, Plate making, Studio time was by the hour, and Block time. I remember having to stop a session in the middle of a track, because Nona Hendricks had booked time, and we were on her time. That meant “You’re Done!” You mentioned $300 for time. Try $3,000 in the 70’s.
Yes 🙌 sir !! You are right. Back in the days the 2inch in my neighborhood was $150.00 and the 1/4 inch for the mix down was $125. The rates were like $50 -$100 per hour. It was strictly analog 24 tracks
There's a 1 inch as well
I miss the feel of outboard gear but lets not forget that the outboard gear needed hella maintenance, Dat machines, Adat Machines...we had DA-78's and you hqd to keep em clean, if you did a lot of smoking in ya lab then that was an issue. With all that said, i can appreciate the digital age and the amount of money spent on equipment back then is not even a fraction of the cost now. My only conplaint is the subscription era but I get it, but the hassles of havin an ilok sucked too. Had to shut my studio down because I couldnt compete with $10 an Hr at the crib back then.
True, the old gear was a pain but was worth it
I missed the. Marietta Ga flea market . And the big chicken. was right around the corner😂.
Stay blessed 🙌
Cost of entry has never been so low. RUclips make people think they can do it all themselves. People not liking the elitism in studios driving customers away and making them do it themselves.
Who needs a studio when you can record an album with a laptop anywhere, on the bus, at a cafe, by a river, on the toilet. Now there are studios in every other house.
True
The Covid era actually was the best my way- because the stimulus allowed more artists to do music at that time
I was signed to a production deal back in the day and the A-Room price was 275/hr.
I was glad I wasn’t paying it.
😂
Jodeci recorded there, Cameo, Missy, etc.
Actually met Les Paul at the studio. Cool as candy. Super nice guy. The father, literally, of multi-track recording.
Only known really for his insanely great sounding guitars, but yeah he invented mult-track recording.
Dope!
Commercial Studios are closing bc record labels are not sending work to them like normally.
Exactly. There's no label at all for most artists. No advance. So a big studio is not in the plan for most artists making their art.
Definitely right on this. Refreshing history lesson 🙏🏾
Drawmer Comp and Gate TDM plugin was $750. Waves Mercury TDM retail was $12000. We got a deal for $7500. With my SSL console and HVAC needed to run it, my monthly electric bill was almost $2000 back in NYC Times Square. Tape machines were a pain but they stayed in sync much more than the (3) ADAT setups.
True, it was a different world back then!
Back in the early 2000s, I used to frequent at least 30 different major studios in burbank, w some of them being blocks from each other. Now, Only 5 of these studios remain.
Yeah it’s been a crazy transition but I will say musically the music has taken a big hit because of this. I’ve owned my own studio for a while but I learned from the big ones. Having a professional one in your house makes more sense in today’s world. If you’re trained right and know what you’re doing musically it’s a god send. But that hasn’t been the case for the last 5 years or so. So much inexperienced going on in the industry it baffles me how a lot of these products make it to the market. But I have a feeling why they do. They’ve been trying to destroy the number one art form on earth which is hip hop for a while it’s used in any and everything nowadays. Go listen to albums that stayed in one house until completion to albums that get recorded in various locations and mixed in various locations and mastered in various locations what you get is a whole bunch of competitors on one project fighting for future business. Making the album experience for the consumers very unpleasant. I hear it and you hear it all the time from people that album was all over the place. And this is why to many people on one project trying to make a name for themselves. You can’t blame that on studio revolutions that we have today. It’s how albums are being made is the problem. 20 to 40 producers on one project is diabolical up to 80 song writers on a project. The artist are not the artist anymore they’re just a walking billboard. Home studios great. The way they’re being utilized not so great. Big studios used to have a team of the same people to pump out there sound they’ve created that’s why they were big back in the days. They’ve gotten away from that now by trying to keep up with the trends and they all fall by trying to do it this way. So artists with budgets go the cheaper way if it’s all going to sound the same anyways. Being apart of this industry for a while this is why big house recording studios keep closing. They’ve gotten away from investing in talented people to put on their team and create a sound culture that people are willing to pay for.
Great take ✅
I visited atl in 2005. I went to the underground and i saw a recording booth in there. I don't remember the price but it was by the hour and not as expensive as nyc studios. You could do a couple songs and they press you a cd.
Yep!
Studios are closing due to budgets but thats only regarding hip hop/Rap/R&b. Recording studios for Rock/Country etc are still in business for the most part. Most engineers have their own studios as well when back in the day they were hired to engineer in major studios. In addition, some of us got the money to buy professional gear and build our own professional studios. But, to get your sound sonically competitive, you will need high end professional gear and a professional engineer with a good ear and a high end monitoring system. Plus, dont let me get started with Atmos surround, film sound tracks and scoring. A dusty laptop and cheap interface won't cut it.
They are closing too. Music row ain’t the same in Nashville
I was one of the first studios to get 24T Adat in New Orleans area, maybe the first.
Charged $40 hr. in the 90s.
The real truth behind recording studios closing are the plugin industries. Back in the day you had no plugins so everything had to be manually done with Tape. Digital Plugins came along and made life much easier and all you needed was a laptop. You pretty much have a plugin which replicates any audio device and people started buying Plugins. The music industry has changed and AI is now taking over.
I use to record on D-88 tape and final mixes were on dat tapes.
True, the sound of tape is unmatched.
Yes DAT
Bolo, NOoooooooooooooooooooooo...They are closing because we no longer NEED them. It started around the Portastudio era and then again when Mackie came out with a real inexpensive mixer, and the second wave of samplers. When DAWS came out strong, now we could go headlong into directly recording at high resolution, and my first DAW was Voyetra. Whole LPS were made on Amiga, Atari, PCs,and the early versions of MAC. Instead of using my reel I can use my SVHS recorders, so I have tons of masters, and then I got an analog synth for $250. Between the 2 inch tape and the machine, I have at least 10-20 pieces of gear for the same amount of money. To add to that, They had to pay for the engineer to set up the machines, tweak the studio ,record/mix, and then maybe you got what you wanted.Now If I want to record an orchestra, then I would use a commercial studio, yet for anything else, it's not cost effective..
8:06 came to a SCREEEEEECHING halt‼️‼️‼️
I like Bolo, love from London.
Most people wanted make music,but couldn't afford it..
If people dont pay for music anymore but spending 1000's to make it is just is a ruff situation😔
The best recordings that I hear come out of bedroom and live recordings like on a stage or in a orchestra setting. Studios can be anywhere as long as the mixing guy knows what he's doing.
You say they gots Skrimp, Cra legs. Dude I'm going there
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Very true, that’s why the d88’s were a life changer.
I definitely see your point with the decline of recording studio. And you're right the equipment did get cheaper and more affordable for people. I just invested in my own Studio only because I got tired of playing with engineers and people charging me the BS
PREACH!!! I used Ampex 2 inch back then; used smpte to sync everything up!! The good ole days!!😂😂😂
That’s dope!
4:57 i pay $900 for the platinum from waves 🌊 i was the only person in 3 town with a paid waves plugging with protools mbox with a tlm 103 and a liquid channel 😂😂😂 still can’t not mix thr song right becauseo of the computer power it need
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Great video bolo ,i saw the original video about this,for me i remember back in those days of the big studio,and we didn't have a lot of money,and the most talented people are broke,and could not get in to a big studio to Express themselves,which is hard,anyway you know what i mean.i had my first home studio in my mum's house,i was using an Atari 10 40 st with a pirate copy of cubase,oh yeah cubase use to cost about 300 pounds upwards,wasn't hearing that in 1990😂just wanted to make music.one of the reason why big studio's close down is because the the power was given to the broke and talented,now they can set up there own shit.peace bolo
My homies home got broken into in the A around that time they took his whole studio
Haha - as a pro-studio owner in the 80's and 90's I don't know where to start :) So I won't. But enough to say that years down the line 'everyone is a producer' sort of is the curse, because most people are not good at engineering or producing. The tools are just the tools. But you can't give a carpentry set to a kid and expect a finely crafted table. No. I rest my case. There was a reason why bands spent thousands in a studio.... quality results.
True!
Bedroom producer saturation.
Bolo I think the original person to start this topic was "Marks Musicology Euphorium" but I could be wrong....
I’ll check him out too
This one engineer was like 'naw you aint usin' tape, the neve board is warm enough.' Fired on site 😝
8:18 he ain’t lying we lost are flea market on 45st in palm beach 🏖️ it never recover too
Palm Beach County!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yep. The flea market in 45th used to jump
BRO YOU JUST MADE ME FEEL SO OLD
The M-Box was the beginning of the End Of Big Studios
Yep
Never forget the Digi 001 era.
It was awesome too....awesome to see artistic freedom and accessibility to easily consume the music you wanted....but that's getting harder now because of the algorithms on the platforms we consume our music
Facts
gotta love Bolo's positivity.
Thanks!
When I’m back in town, I’m trying to go to the super golden
Yessir
The biggest impact in my opinion is the majority of potential clients (artists) are completely self funded now. Streaming has destroyed aspirations for artists to get record deals, killed budgets, and the labels no longer cut the check for studio time except for a small handful of top tier artists.
( You are Right ) Its all about the price of the gear $$ ..as soon as the companies started selling gear that was good at a cheap price .. everyone could record, that is one of the main reasons .. also the industry quality for good sounding music dropped off, and basically = pro gear is now consumer gear.
3:34 don’t forget about baking….. 😅
You had to start the video with a comment on your buffet trip : D lol I love that too
Bolo I have a Samson g track pro going to hopefully upgrade to m audio 192/4 tracker which will help my studio.
Never worked with tape but I was born in 93. Started recording in audacity on a behringer usb mixer
We had a neighborhood grocery store close that sold beef snacks in 2000 4 for a dollar but that stuff closed down
Cool video bro
It could be consumer interest, the news, also depression. Music is a therapy and people lock up with artist or party… it could be because depression in the world has caused people to lose interest or not seek visions or goals… it’s a broad subject… the seventies eighties built longer lasting tracks… now a days I dont know what the problem is but I think health plays a role… also things rise and fall… I hope we can rejuvenate and restore musical interest and excitement… main thing is vision for a product that communicates in a way that people identify with it and it’s sometimes subtle sometimes fun sometimes invokes wisdom… i think there’s something supernatural to the music making process to be honest… just like babe Ruth when he hit that homer he pointed out… it’s something timely special and has power…
Bro you in my hood. I know all about Duluth and that Lil Korea area off Pleasant Hill Road. 🔥🔥🔥
Why? Four little letters is why...USB-C
Respectfully 👍🏾
I think when ADATs came out studio prices seemed to get lower too
I use record on adat and D88
we all have in home studio equiment. ive heard some bedroom hits.
This is probably why a lot of songs don't sound as good as they used to
There where bad recording back then too, we just didn’t notice it as much
Well, our ears age faster than our emotions.
I RECORDED MY FIRST TRACK BACK IN 96.. WE SOME OLD MEN NOW.. HAHA.. I USED TO RECORD ON A 4 CHANNEL TASCAM CASSETTE RECORDER, AND MAKE BEATS WITH A YAMAHA PSR-540
Respect to the OG's!
I was still using my tascam 424 in 2013!
Yo..im in atl, where that spot at? 😂 I saw his video maybe 2 weeks ago, great vid
Yes Bolo home studios are the ticket. You can invest more into yourself. I have a great setup and charge a very reasonable price for local talent to have great quality.
True
All facts. In addition XVX were the reason Waves drastically dropped their prices.
Sad to hear because I always wanted to own a studio with that nice ssl console at the center.
Me too! I still want it!
Those days are gone my friend. You can still do it, but it's not how it used to be.
Go get it. I'll probably get another used semi pro console when my current one reaches its end. But is it gonna pay for itself? No way!!
Waves use to be like 3 or 4k now it’s like 30 per month for a subscription
Right!
Tape was $ 125 dollars and you can only put 3 songs on it, maybe 4. and it was like 5 lbs. Then you had to Burn a CD
Right!
You had to stripe SMPTE on track 24… if your tape was 60 minutes… that’s 60 minutes of striping SMPTE on the tape BEFORE you could start recording!
The elephant in the room is that most of the music being made SUCKS…I scroll through these RUclips “beat makers” and it ALL sounds like one giant mashup of the same sample packs 😢
For real
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They don’t wanna hear the truth lol! Making the ability to create music way too accessible, hurt the ART of making GOOD music. There’s a lot of people making music, but there are not a lot of actual artist.
@@IamDjehuty exactly 💯
@@theonewhoknocks3107 facts
Scary it’s bout almost getting back to that 😢 9:25
Studios today aren't that successful because many of them are opening thinking about money only and not the clients. A producer and engineer is what makes the clients come and stay!!!! Bigger studios are still around when and if they are used for certain gear and room sound but yes now we can record anywhere and then send it to people to mix so that's good!!!
Right
We had to pay $150 for 24 track tape.
Anybody know about the H2O, AIR, Paradox, and Audiowarez crack groups? lol Collecting cracked plugins was an addiction in itself in the late 90's into the 2000's.
Another topic for you Bolo: The big studios and labels are working on consolidate the music industry. Check out the Top Music Attorney's channel on RUclips, for the latest information- We all know there is a "legal side" to the music business and industry.
That was actually the channel that I watched about this whole thing regarding studios closing! Appreciate you bolo for giving a shout out to small channels and actually siting when reacting!
Thanks for watching!
Microwave society, I’m stealing that from you that’s good
Had my 1st studio in 1990..( damn im.old ) 😂😂😂
How is Eddie(believe that is his name)? He was in hospital.
Property rates are up along with rent. That alone will hurt studios.
Eddie is great, thanks for asking!
Adat tape era 🙄😄
Talk to em Bolo
COVID messed up a lot of things too.
Yep I mention that in video ✅
Facts
Mainly because we can record at home and take out background sounds on our phones 🤷🏾♂️
Yep!
First off they charge too much money. And studios don't never help the artist especially new artist. And taking all your money. I charge for recording.
Well… the studio is just the facility, they are there to simply they have space we’re creators can create. It’s on the artist to facilitate the talent around them.
It’s not the studios responsibility to do anything for the artist outside of studio time. There are studios around that offer services to help artists but it’s not common.
Pure Facts!!!!!
All True
were closing or still closing? Initially I feel like the internet and piracy had an affect too, at least with major studios as well as technology making studio obsolete, especially if you knew what you were doing. Back in the day you could get cd or cassettes made and sell them out of your car and make some money back if you were an independent artist trying t make something happen, thats dead now...nobody hardly even owns a cd player or cassette player, everything is streaming and we know you need a gazillion streams just to make 10 dollars lol, but technology put studios in the hands of a lot of people, and if youre recording yourself now and remember the days when you have to rent studio time you know how much better it feels not to have to watch the clock in the studio, one could also argue that being on the clock made you much more focused on getting things done versus starting a ton of ideas and " getting back to them". And lets be honest, back in the day most people renting studio time knew you had to possibly come back and mix your song later and pay for that time, now artist usually want a mix as soon as the session is done..they want it all done and would be ok with a 15 to 20 minute mix versus taking your time and really mixing it like back in the day. A lot of the real artistry is gone too, " throw on the autotune and record me in one or two takes", at the end of the day...people are just not trying to spend money in the studio.....or pay for music. or plugins....or movies....or for anything if possible lol
I definitely feel ya ✅
Oh the days of $2000 a day lockouts not including SIR rentals lol 😂.
Aye Per hour buddy.
Yep
Party city is closing all its stores. Yellow trucking company filed bankruptcy after 100 years in operation. If you can withstand these times you might be alright after all this blows over.
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bro i asked you b4 what daw or hardware ypu recommend???? you never responded????? i use to rock on logic, im about to jump back in......looking for some direction??????/
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Streaming killed off music as a way to make a living for quite a lot of musicians. When there is no money there is no way to afford recording in a studio.
That's a solid one boloo 🫡 👑 respect for the credit
The REAL question is....Why do they still exist at all ??
They are closing because there is not enough money in it anymore. The money is in music equipment hardware and software sales now. So close your studios and open a music store. 😂
Fr bro I still crack everything 🤣
Hahaha, good one! 😂
No money in music anymore, due to Apple Music, spofity etc. As a label, you'd probably make more money selling a dozen casette tapes
There’s a lot of money… still. Trust me
I was literally joking with my buddy earlier that we should put our s*** on cassette tapes. People could still copy the music without paying for it but it will take a few more steps😂
Better question is why's everybody making the same damn video? 😂 This like the 4th one I've seen about the same thing
It’s a great topic