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Analog Rules: How to make money from a home studio.

  • 21-03-2009 2:55pm
    #1
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭


    recently culled from "Analog Rules" audio maintenance site. A really great place to go for tips on maintenance, soldering and component replacement.

    http://www.analogrules.com/
    What???

    You think there is an easy way to make money with a dumpy home bedroom studio??

    Well there isn't.

    Oh sure you can likely make $10 or $15 an hour

    Until your neighbors complain and the cops make a visit
    because you are making loud sounds in the middle of the night...

    But you'll never make enough money to equip the studio with REAL PROFESSIONAL gear
    or make enough to move the studio into a 'real' location with large rooms
    Or make enough to off-set the money you're losing daily by not taking a 'real job
    and doing the recording as a hobby.

    And if by chance you do eek out a living - it will be living with roommates,
    of not having enough to pay the car insurance, no savings,
    no marketable skills for the future.

    It's one thing to live like a 20 year old when you are a 20 year old -
    another to be 40 still living in squalor... without a future.

    Look, it's a HARD business.
    Everyone wants to open up a recording studio - hell YOU do !!
    There are too many recording studios already - the world does NOT need one more!

    GEZZE... what the hell are you thinking???

    An excellent site IMO.


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  • #2
    dav nagle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭dav nagle


    studiorat wrote: »
    recently culled from "Analog Rules" audio maintenance site. A really great place to go for tips on maintenance, soldering and component replacement.

    http://www.analogrules.com/



    An excellent site IMO.

    How much did they pay you to post this trash? :p:p:p


  • #3
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    dav nagle wrote: »
    How much did they pay you to post this trash? :p:p:p

    It's a good site. I especially like the fact that it would appear to be maintained my such a curmudgeonly old sod. A man after me own heart!


  • #4
    frobisher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭frobisher


    studiorat wrote: »
    recently culled from "Analog Rules" audio maintenance site. A really great place to go for tips on maintenance, soldering and component replacement.

    http://www.analogrules.com/



    An excellent site IMO.

    F**k yer man!


  • #5
    danjokill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 261 ✭✭danjokill


    I have bought test reels from here .... as i remember they were very prompt in dispatch


  • #6
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    Very good article on how to identify dud capacitors. Interesting he says they don't need to be replaced as often as a lot of people would have you believe.


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  • #7
    frobisher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭frobisher


    studiorat wrote: »
    Very good article on how to identify dud capacitors. Interesting he says they don't need to be replaced as often as a lot of people would have you believe.

    Link?!


  • #8
    iquinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭iquinn


    frobisher wrote: »
    Link?!

    http://www.analogrules.com/badcaps.html


  • #9
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    See?

    Analog Rules say...
    Note that there is NO Special "audiophile" Cap that is any better
    then those you can buy off the shelf at the major electronics distrubutors...

    The MYTH of a 'best audio cap' is just that - a myth and an 'old wives audio engineer' tale

    Meanwhile, over at Handmade Electronics

    http://www.hndme.com/productcart/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=13
    Premium grade silk fiber dielectric electrolytic capacitor, not a souped
    up standard electrolytic sold as an audio capacitor.
    Smoother warmer tone than traditional electrolyics (no peakiness on the top end).
    100 hour burn in recommended.


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