Comments on: PRO BONO (NOT U2) http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/01/09/pro-bono-not-u2-2/ Mix magazine's George Petersen's rants, musings and general commentary about recording, live sound and professional audio in general Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:33:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Glen Williams http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/01/09/pro-bono-not-u2-2/#comment-3116 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:00:23 +0000 http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/01/09/pro-bono-not-u2-2/#comment-3116 It would seem that if you run a pro studio of some sort, perhaps you don't want to lose the revenue from hosting the ocassional artist free of charge, but there are scads of home recording hobbyists who could learn from being able to just play engineer by offering free work to artists they know - I do this all the time.<br> <br> Ive got a modest home setup consisting of an HD recorder, an analog mixing desk, some outboard effects and compression, and a laptop to mix down to (along with a pile of mics - some decent, some not so much!) I take every chance I can get to have someone come to my place to do some acoustic work or go out to record someone's performance, etc. It seems it would benefit many to have these experiences, since it can prove difficult and inefficient to the learning process to have to be artist and engineer all in one... It would seem that if you run a pro studio of some sort, perhaps you don’t want to lose the revenue from hosting the ocassional artist free of charge, but there are scads of home recording hobbyists who could learn from being able to just play engineer by offering free work to artists they know - I do this all the time.

Ive got a modest home setup consisting of an HD recorder, an analog mixing desk, some outboard effects and compression, and a laptop to mix down to (along with a pile of mics - some decent, some not so much!) I take every chance I can get to have someone come to my place to do some acoustic work or go out to record someone’s performance, etc. It seems it would benefit many to have these experiences, since it can prove difficult and inefficient to the learning process to have to be artist and engineer all in one…

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