Diki, I generally agree with you on this issue, but there are those of us who will never learn to fish or cook and prefer to go to great seafood places.

Same with recording. I will always use top rated studios because that's built into the film budget and we only do 10-12 film scores and 5 or 6 other projects a year.


That's not enought to be at the top of our game with an in-house studio. It's like a few years ago, before film basically disappeared.
It just didn't make sense to process in house. The volume just wasn't there to have a "top shelf" product.

This is not a disagreement with your advice on this matter...just a statement that, in certain instances, there are options which make sense, timewise and quality wise. I have one voice-over guy that will only record voice-overs with his own $5,000 plus mike (an old monster-can't recall the brand) at one studio. He's the voice of a major client...a vehicle manufacturer, so I have no choice in that case. His rate is $150.00 per hour. Mine for writing, shooting and producing is as much as $250.00 per hour, so it really is not economical for me to record "in-house".
If we had more volume, number of projects-wise and weren't also ewardproducing print, packaging and research, I'd certainly get into "in-house" recording on a national quality level.

Sounds like you've got your act together,
I look for your posts...a little dramatic compared to my style, but generally on target and well articulated.

Glad to know you,


Russ