> > I know Jim always seems to favour Avatar Studios (Power
> > Station) in NYC, but you would have thought he and/or
> > especially Rinkoff would have set-up their own place by
> > now?
> >
> > Anyone know?
>
> Doesn't Rinkoff have his own studio so he can mix and edit
> from home? No idea, but yeah, you'd have thought he had
> something.
Most people who have the slightest professional interest in recording has some quantity and quality of equipment in their home. It is like a baseball player having a bat or a guitarist having a guitar. The large studios have specialized equipments that are not casually purchased, and acoustics that are designed for pin-drop accuracy of sound recording, and home studios are usually just built for prototype recordings to get a concept laid down. Some people do go full out and have fuller studios in their homes, but it is not really a complicated thing to buy a few bits of equipment.
Recording equipment for the high-end is really really expensive, but the lower ends are affordable to those with means. I have a sense or two that Rinkoff would not need the installment layaway method of payment for such things, but he could choose the level of equipment he needs. Prototypes are just what I am calling the roughest parts of a recording, like a demo of a demo.
Jim Cypherd once paid fifteen thousand dollars for a small recording console.....so I could very much see how much the high end recording studio consoles would cost, so it is cost-effective to rent the studios and let them have the hassle of that investment and maintenance.
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