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The beauty of making recordings is the journey as well as the end result. The joy of crafting audio candy is rewarding. Access to hi quality gear is easier and cheaper than ever before. The net provides a great opportunity for learning and creativity in the acoostic Recording Studios Brisbane Link). Does this mean the end of Large Commercial Studios of 90's? When digital cameras became the norm, commercial photo printing services suffered a drop in profits. The same can be said for the recording studio business. The 70's 80's and 90's was a time of great profit for recording companies. Now in 2009, theirs great profit for companies like Apple (Logic Studio), Waves, SSL, Focusrite, Motu, UAD, URS that make tools for a mixing/recording engineer to use in the recording studio.

The Journey for being a recording engineer seems like a great idea at the begin. The aspirations of working in a recording studios makes it an amazing dream job. Working with stars and celebrities may seem prestigious and a enticing goal to achieve.

The application of audio engineering principles in a recording studios makes for a lifetime of learning and making mistakes. I like to draw the analogy of a great chef with respect to an recording engineer. We instinctively know what taste good. we're not forced to like certain foods. However, it's a career requirement of a chef to balance the flavour so more they grow they clientel. Likewise, the recording/mixing engineer knows what instinctively sounds good. The skills and art is in applying the tools of mixing and recording to replicate the sound in your mind's eye.

Many mixing and recording engineers that work in the worlds best studios (link to record production/video tours of the best world recording studios.) all use basically very similar tools. The different sounds comes mainly from inside the mind of the engineer. Their techniques although well guarded secrets can be revealed through intensive experimentation and documentation of past results. Presets in a DAW are a great way to get a great sound quickly by providing a starting point that's closer to the desired result.