Chris, the tools are so numerous and vast depending on the recording house.
First off, no, most grammy recording houses do not just have a good Mac with
PT, an good control surfase and mic, most big houses have decades worth of
outboard equipment that goes back to the days of the beetles. Compressers,
lunch boxes, equalizers, limmetters, exciters and on and on. On top of that,
some recording booths run in the 6 to 7 figurs just to construct. Then, you
have ingeneers and mastering houses that have over 100 combined years of
experience in some cases. I am hardly scraching the surfase either. Keep in
mind, todays average home recording artust does have much more ability to
get a better sound then more than a few studios did just 20 years ago with a
fraction of the investment.
Adieu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher-Mark Gilland" <clgillan...@gmail.com>
To: <ptaccess@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 5:48 PM
Subject: Mainstream Recording?
OK guys, I know this may sound like a dumb question, especially coming
from a almost considered newby, but I can't help but ask.
So many professionals I've talked to have told me that the industry
standard is definitely ProTools. I always hear people saying if i turn
the radio on to any Country music FM radio station now a days, or say, top
40 station, etc. Everything that I pretty much here will have been done
strictly in ProTools. nOw, there may be paid plugins that were used, not
just the stocked ones, but then again, some times it may! just be stocked
stuff. I posed the argument question of, ok, now hold on. Who's to say
they're not using something like QBase, or say Logic, or what not? I was
given the answer of, it's possible, but highly unlikely. MOst likely, you
can bet money on 99% chance, everything would be done in ProTools from the
actual recording to the final master/mixing. So for instance, let's just
take Leann Rimes for instance, with her You Light up my Life Inspirational
songs disc, as that's absolutely by way! far and away one a my favorite
discs of all times, that I practicly ware out darn near. LOL! Something
like that, you all really mean to tell me a recording that sounds that
good literally can be totally done in nothing more than just P T with a
good interface, microphone, and maybe control surface, with exactly the
same software that I am using? ProTools 10? That's unbelievable! So,
granted I have a $300 or so mike, and maybe a $300 or so interface.
NOthing fancy. What she would probably be using, oh God heavens alive!
I'd think the surface alone! would probably be 10's of thousands of bucks,
but generally, for a regular recording artist like her or Randy Travis,
Amy Grant, or Steven Curtis Chapman, or Alan Jackson, etc. YOu know,
basically, the big dogs, does anyone know exactly down the the make and
model what basically a big time studio like that would consist of for
really full grammy based artists like that using ProTools?
Chris.
