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Chicago Business reports on local studio owner Steve Albini.
"Among famed Chicago-based engineer Steve Albini's many recording credits — he's worked with more than 1,000 bands — are albums by groups including Nirvana, the Pixies and Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. At Electrical Audio, the North Side studio he started in 1991, he's recorded Cheap Trick and Blues Traveler.
But the business of recording comes with plenty of challenges, even for a studio with such a strong reputation. The hours are terrible, the money is worse, and Mr. Albini, 44, says his studio's future is bleak. All of which suits him just fine...
Major-label projects can occupy the studio for twice that time, but Mr. Albini likes the smaller ones: "The band that shows up in their broken-down van with their threadbare black Levis, if you've told them it's going to cost $3,000 to make their album, they're going to show up with three grand in their pockets and you basically don't have to worry about them. I'd rather deal with a hundred deadbeat bar bands than one multinational corporation."
Well worth a read - he's recorded NZ bands like HDU and Die die die. And check his salary.
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