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Originally Posted by
Thomas W. Bethe
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Record companies are no longer run by people who care about what they are doing they only care about the "bottom line". Record companies use to be run by musicians and other who cared about their product but now they are run by bean counters and people with MBAs. Those executives do not care about the music or the heritage of what made them great it is all about NOW and what kind of money they can make for themselves. Too bad....maybe things will turn around but I kinda doubt it.
Well, depends on how you define turning around. The business models of both the music and recording industries are completely changing from a centralized one to a decentralized one. Big, lumbering record labels are being replaced by smaller, nimbler indie ones, and artists who can connect with their fans on the grassroots level. Large scale studios are being replaced by private facilities and freelancers. Everything is going niche. It's all about making less money per project or selling fewer units, but making it up with doing more projects or having a better profit margin on sales.
Whether this is all a good or bad thing depends on where one sits in the food chain. Personally, as a freelance producer/engineer/writer, I've never been busier, so I can't complain.
But it is sad to see the loss of some of these great facilities that have so much history, not to mention the access to great sounding rooms. If the Hit Factory does in fact go under here in South Florida, that would leave maybe one or two studios in the whole town that have decent to great tracking rooms, neither of which are the scope or size of what the Hit Factory had in Studio A. If you want to track a full orchestra or big band, you'll have to go out of town to do it.