The room rate(no engineer) is $100 /hr, and for the engineer, add $50 /hr.
Not bad at all. Working with my last band, we paid 150GBP/hr, and engineered it ourselves. and it was a hole compared to yours. Lovely old desk though, great sound but a ***** to use.
For basic stuff, 16 channels IS overkill, but it's good that you have it so you have the room to move up if you want.
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PictureQuite pathetic when you bring out guns like yours!
I used to have my 7 Synths hooked up to it as well (2 mono channels per synth, one Vocal on mono, one guitar on mono), but since I got the Delta 1010, it's just used if a few people come round to jam. That's not often, as my neighbours tend to get annoyed at anything being played.
We're working with 48 channels of Digital to Analogue I/O with 3 Protools HD Cards. Kinda crazy.
And yes, I feel privileged as hell working with this setup. You can't make things sound bad, even if you tried lol.
There is no such thing as overkill. Despite what my missus says ("Why do you need 7 keyboards?").
A few hours is never enough...it's worse than keyboard addiction...
True. It would take me at least a day to wrap my head round what that setup can do, let alone get a handle on the effects. The patch bay alone looks scary!