The Sound City Movie

For those of you who don’t know, Dave Grohl released a movie about the legendary Sound City Studios. While most of the movie is filled with history and fantastic stories from people who recorded there (side note: I recorded a record right next door at Sound Image in 2005), the last 1/3 of the movie is spent painting a picture of sorrow via Pro Tools, and how Sound City had to close down because the evil home recording industry made it unnecessary for people to pay $1500 a day to record on a $300,000 recording console when they can make the same record at home for $100.

I obviously have a bit of a problem with this seeing as I do alot of recording at home. Taking that argument further, it has been said because of home recording, there is now more bad music available to the masses. But is that Pro Tools’ fault, or the record companies that put of the bad music? And I thought it was funny that the movie failed to mention all of the Foo Fighters records that were recorded using Pro Tools (or how the last Foo Fighters record was made at the home of Dave Grohl).

And what about all the good music the we would have NEVER heard if it wasnt for the affordability of home recording software?

Anyways…..just sayin.

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