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Originally Posted by ken0042
That's exactly what was being talked about.
I have friends who have small band; play about 10 gigs per year. One band got all of us to pre-buy their CD for $15, went to a studio and recorded the CD. Another band just went and recorded their own CD- cost to friends was $5 each. There is a world of difference.
The bottom line is no CD would sound anywhere near as good as it does without the technology used prior to us getting our grubby little hands on it. Having said that, I still think they are overpriced; compared to how much the artists see of the profits.
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I'd say that the guys who sold their CD for $5 just weren't proper audio techs and didn't know how to record and engineer themselves properly. In that case, it might be better to pay for a studio with employees with expertise in the business or for consulting but I still hold that it is possible to make professionally recorded music in one's home that is as good as the most expensive studio churns out...especially with today's computers, audio software, and digital technology and it's incredibly easy. Even decades before, the first album of Boston (w/ "More than a Feeling") was recorded and mastered in a garage and home studio on thrown-together and homemade recording equipment from the 70s. Prince's albums up 1987 were almost entirely performed by Prince (all instruments) and engineered by him in his home.
My point is that I feel that the cost of engineering an CD is being grossly overestimated. Most of the money goes into paying for the running of the record company or distributors and for marketing. It is possible to make a great sounding record with today's everyday computers and run of the mill software without the hassle of a large amount of expensive equipment. The internet is a great thing because many new artists are just promoting themselves and selling themselves and distributing their music themselves to their customers.
That said, $12 is a good price for a CD, if you enjoy the music on it. I'd pay $200 a CD for some of my favorite music just because I like it so much...(well, I would collect multiple copies or even LPs of the same song). I still find most commercial albums to be 1 or 2 good songs, and then album filler. Again, internet comes to the rescue and listeners can choose to buy individuals songs.