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Quote The Red Bladder:
They have their favourite studios and their pet musicians and people they know. I sometimes walk into the control room (to clear the empty bottles) and see that the musician being recorded is in China, NY or somewhere.
Absolutely right - but the mix and post for a great deal of the worlds content is done in London. Far more in LA, obviously. But everywhere else has a trickle. Don't underestimate how much is still done around London. One of the UKs stronger areas in terms of export - not that the UK gov even notices!! A lot of bollywood, for example, is conformed and graded here.
Quote The Red Bladder:
The problem for everybody at all levels in this industry, is that the old days of musicians in a recording studio are over. That does not mean that we are no longer recording music, but the prestige room just there for recording music is long past its shag-by-date.
The studio is dead - long live the studio!
That has very little to do with Air et al. That's not their core business.
Quote The Red Bladder:
The film boys would be perfectly prepared to spend £12k to £50k a day
No they wouldn't. Take it from someone who works in that biz (500ish games scores and 150ish movies). I agree that they don't need Air et al, they don't even bother recording full orchestra any more - mainly because a full orchestra isn't every film. But post production, score mixing and dubbing - Outside of LA its London. And no they won't go out of town - Park Royal couldn't get them to travel off piste even IN London. The dubbing, post and film score mixing scene is STILL about taxi rides and one hour get togethers.
And this is not core music industry. Air and Abbey Road are booked all of the time and in profit (although not an attractive one WRT to what you COULD do with that land).
Quote The Red Bladder:
On another topic, most German films are made by or for public broadcasting and they definitely do not use London!
ha!!!
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