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Yeah, 500 CDs and 500 vinyl. Would love to build a home studio in the future. Need to get other players in recording with me though. It gets expensive real quick, most listeners don't realize. If you have all the gear and can produce and play everything, that's the best situation!
Yeah being a one man band like matt has its advantages! haha. So do you hire session musicians then? If so, how do you figure out what they should play? DO you give them demos before entering the studio or have practices with them before? I have never had to hire anyone before because essentially all my friends are musicians lol. Every single friendship that has lasted for me is pretty much because we met in highschool and both played music.
This is the main decision and trade off for an artist - build your own set up and avoid ongoing studio hire costs, but then slow to a crawl as you climb a massive learning curve, learn how to do the job of the engineer, producer and rest of the band so you can make cheaper but less alive versions of the songs yourself. All the while struggling to obtain objectivity on what you are doing creatively.
Whilst you were off doing that, AI arrives and you can now just type in some shitty words and make a ‘song’ and creativity and patience are optional skills for most people 🤷♂️
