Linux for Pro Audio Work How to Lose Clients FAST!!! 3838

I want a customer who hires me for the job that I do, not a customer who hires me because I have a particular piece of gear and knows all the buzzwords. Those latter customers are NOT profitable, and they will nickel and dime you to rest. "Why do we need to spend all this money to use this hall, why can't we just use my living room?" "Why do we have to pay money to get the piano tuned? It sounds fine to me." I am sorry, it's just not worth it.

My operating costs are higher than $100-hr even with no computer system involved, so charging $100-hr for editing work would be a net loss. You tell the kid off the street that, though, and he won't believe you.

There's a big market for that kind of work, sure. But my facility is not the place for it, and I don't enjoy doing it. Sure, I could add a Pro Tools system and it would cost less than I pay in blank media for a weekend festival gig, but it wouldn't bring me in any business in the market that I am pitched toward. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."