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| Semi-sorta OT: A new view on studio rates [message #57412] |
Mon, 29 August 2005 23:50  |
DT
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> Did he sell his studio/house in TN? Sure was a nice place.
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> James
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> John <no@no.com> wrote:
>>A long time ago I heard there were family health issues but have not
>>heard a peep. Anyone know how this fine man and family is doing ?
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>>John
>so did he bail on Paris too. bummer !
Mark McCurdy wrote:
> Not sure. Aaron might know.
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> "James McCloskey" <excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4313adeb$1@linux...
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>>Did he sell his studio/house in TN? Sure was a nice place.
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>>James
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>>John <no@no.com> wrote:
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>>>A long time ago I heard there were family health issues but have not
>>>heard a peep. Anyone know how this fine man and family is doing ?
>>>
>>>John
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>another person sees the light!
:-)
rod
"Kim" <hiddensounds@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>Yes, yes, yes, yes, I know, I know, I know, I know, I'm late to the party.
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>I always knew how good it was but just never forked out the cash for it
because
>I figured "How often do you really have to reload your machine?".
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>This new box though with all the HDD space in the world got me think
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| Re: Semi-sorta OT: A new view on studio rates [message #57413 is a reply to message #57412] |
Tue, 30 August 2005 00:10  |
Deej [1]
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ing
that
>"If I want to have 6 partitions all with different purposes all running
XP,
>it's going to speed things up a lot if I can copy an image from place to
>place...".
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>And OH MY!!! How FAST is it?
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>I've got a clean Windows XP install, with all the latest drivers, Service
>Packs, Windows updates, Acrobat Reader, WinRAR, Video Codecs and Firefox.
>Just my basic beginners install to which I can add the optional applications.
>I don't know how big it is. Maybe 3-4 Gig I'd guess.
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>So I ghosted an image of the whole thing, with high compression. About 5
>and a half minutes.
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>I start ghosting it on to other partitions on the other SATA HDD. I can
create
>a whole extra boot of Windows, complete with all the updates and basic essentials
>loaded... probably 5 hours work, and it takes about 3 minutes. 3 minutes
>and the whole thing is on another partition.
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>If I'd realised just how quick and easy it is, I would have bought it years
>ago.
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>This thing is better than sliced bread. I mean some people make a big deal
>about sliced bread, but honestly it doesn't take hours to slice off a peice
>of bread. Loading windows, drivers, updates, accessories... now that takes
>time.
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>Anyone who doesn't have Ghost, honestly, go get it NOW! Especially if you
>have a DVD burner, because you can image your drives to DVD and load them
>back up at will. If your system goes crazy during a tracking session you
>can load up a working install in maybe 10 minutes and you're back.
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>I feel stupid for not getting it sooner. At least I wont be wasting my life
>any more.
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>Cheers,
>Kim.You mean you guys don't do this already? Jeez..I've been doing this for years
now.
8op
rick <parnell68@hotmail.com> wrote:
>i'm gonna go for broke and charge $10,000,000.00 per day to cull out
>those who musically suck and those who can't pay and suck musically.
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>damn, wish i had thought of this years ago, i'm ordering that new car
>right now.
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>On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:10:11 -0600, "DJ"
><animix_spam-this-ahole_@animas.net> wrote:
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| Re: Semi-sorta OT: A new view on studio rates [message #57415 is a reply to message #57413] |
Tue, 30 August 2005 02:31 |
rick
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>>> thinking, proactive method of speculative pricing, my company's rate
went
>>up
>>> by $5/hr yesterday because I was looking at some sweet mic pres (they
were
>>> pretty sweet, not really sweet, or it would have been $10/hr). I thought
>>> about lowering it back down again when I didn't buy them, but nobody
who
>>> matters asked why (and nobody else really matters), so I figured, why
>>> bother? Next week I think a client might get in a jam and need an extra
>>few
>>> hours to complete their project - rate goes up tomorrow! Today my rate
>>just
>>> went up because I might need a new car someday - probably a hydrogen
fuel
>>> cell car. I'm sure the Flying Spaghetti Monster would approve
>>whole-noodly.
>>>
>>> ;-)
>>>
>>> Dedric
>>>
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>He has 4 Nuendo dual-Opteron rigs running. I believe I read on the Nuendo
forum the church also has Euphonix consoles - MADI from Nuendo to consoles
for tracking, etc (mixing - ?). That's just putting pieces of other posts
together. Maybe he'll pop in and say hi sometime, unless someone else has
talked to him recently.
Regards,
Dedric
On 8/30/05 6:31 AM, in article 431451a5@linux, "John" <no@no.com> wrote:
> so did he bail on Paris too. bummer !
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> Mark McCurdy wrote:
>> Not sure. Aaron might know.
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>> "James McCloskey" <excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:4313adeb$1@linux...
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>>> Did he sell his studio/house in TN? Sure was a nice place.
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>> John <no@no.com> wrote:
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>>>> A long time ago I heard there were family health issues but have not
>>>> heard a peep. Anyone know how this fine man and family is doing ?
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>
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>>I was thinking of trying an FM transmitter to monitor out in my car and
other home stereo devices.
Anyone doing this?
I would think it would kick the shit out of burning test CD after CD.
Any suggestions?
http://www.electronickits.com/kit/complete/radi/canux300.htmWell, when the church moved into the old Compaq Center in Houston (Where the
Rockets used to play) that tells you what kind of budget they have. :)
I do see him post on the Nuendo site once in a while.
"DTerry" <Report message to a moderator
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| Re: Semi-sorta OT: A new view on studio rates [message #57420 is a reply to message #57415] |
Tue, 30 August 2005 06:01 |
Rod Lincoln
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l out
>>those who musically suck and those who can't pay and suck musically.
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>>damn, wish i had thought of this years ago, i'm ordering that new car
>>right now.
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>>On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:10:11 -0600, "DJ"
>><animix_spam-this-ahole_@animas.net> wrote:
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>>>...........hmmmm........I like this!!! I probably need a new API console
>and
>>>a new studio building to put it in......and a Bosendorfer for the 4000
>sq
>>>ft. live room. My rates just went up to $1000.00 per day.
>>>
>>>Take a number and .....hey stop cutting in line!!!!!
>>>
>>>;o)
>>>
>>>"DTerry" <dterry@no_spamkeyofd.net> wrote in message
>>>news:BF395DC8.3EFD%dterry@no_spamkeyofd.net...
>>>> I've been thinking that maybe we musicians and engineers have been looking
>>>> at this business all wrong. We charge for what we do rather than what
>>>might
>>>> happen to us tomorrow. Tsk, tsk, tsk. How shortsighted we are! For
>>>> example, in the oil industry, if your customer goes on vacation during
>the
>>>> summer, the price of a barrel goes up. A hurricane blows through the
>Gulf
>>>> of Mexico, the price goes up. Not because it has to, but just because
>it
>>>> might slow down the production rate by an imperceptible amount. From
>the
>>>AP
>>>> News wire on Katrina:
>>>>
>>>> "Oil refiners said damage to their equipment in the Gulf region appeared
>>>to
>>>> be minimal, and oil prices dropped back from the day's highs above $70
>a
>>>> barrel" (Yahoo/AP News).
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>>>> Brilliant! This is the beauty of the law of controlling supply and
>>>> demanding demand, albeit, shall we say, a "slightly altered" approach
>to
>>>the
>>>> Economics 101 version once boringly named the law of "supply and
>>>> demand"[yawn], which was naively reactive. So, based on this more forward
>>>> thinking, proactive method of speculative pricing, my company's rate
>went
>>>up
>>>> by $5/hr yesterday because I was looking at some sweet mic pres (they
>were
>>>> pretty sweet, not really sweet, or it would have been $10/hr). I thought
>>>> about lowering it back down again when I didn't buy them, but nobody
>who
>>>> matters asked why (and nobody else really matters), so I figured, why
>>>> bother? Next week I think a client might get in a jam and need an extra
>>>few
>>>> hours to complete their project - rate goes up tomorrow! Today my rate
>>>just
>>>> went up because I might need a new car someday - probably a hydrogen
>fuel
>>>> cell car. I'm sure the Flying Spaghetti Monster would approve
>>>whole-noodly.
>>>>
>>>> ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Dedric
>>>>
>>>
>>i re
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