At Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:34:32 Billy wrote:

>At 11:41 AM 1/5/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >We've been using removable hard-drives. Which, I've got to tell you, is a
> >royal pain in the ass. Especially if the sessions are more than 10 songs 
>(a
> >drive only holds about that many multi-track files).
>
>How big are these drives? And $1500 for one hard drive?

Nearly 400 gigs at a cost of $750 each drive.

>For useless
>comparison... I paid in November $120 for a 160 gig, 7200 RPM Western 
>Digital
>drive which will cost me 30 bucks after rebate. I guess these are high 
>speed
>SCSI or SATA drives that usually go into network servers.

Yep.

> >We nearly lost the Kings last studio album because the studio where the
> >album was being done needed their computer freed up for a follow-up 
>session.
> >We had blown every last dime on the recording process and hadn't budgeted
> >for the additional hard-drives to save the material as back-up. The 
>studio
> >was going to erase the stuff.....or burn everything onto 465 separate
> >CDR's....fortunately we were able to find someone with a hard drive we
> >temporarily borrowed to save the sessions. Phew.
>
>I'd hate to be the guy burning those 465 CD-R's...ugh Might want to invest
>in a
>DVD burner - one DVD+R can hold a little over 7 700mb CD-R's, almost 15 for
>the
>new double layer discs.

Three years ago, when this Kings session went down, DVDR's weren't even a 
blink in technology's eye. So the only thing going was the hard-drives or 
the CDR burns. Thank GOd we found someone with a hard drive.

Now, any sessions we do involve a budget to buy hard-drive storage space...

My fear now is that in 10 years if we ever wanted to remix stuff there won't 
be a computer available to read the stuff....or software....or an operator 
old enough to remember the current technology :-)

If for no other reason, THIS is why 2" and 1" tapes are still important to 
the recording process (aside from all the previous discussed reasons...like 
sound quality and warmth).

Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
"Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!!"
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/