Y2K Decimates the Music Industry!
Posted: 24 Nov 1999 10:39 am
Y2K decimates Country Music Industry
Recording Studios in Nashville, Country Music USA, are packed with artists trying to finish albums prior to Jan 1 2000. Y2K fixes have been installed in personal computers, traffic control systems, the military, airlines, and the banking industry, but no one really stopped to think of how large a role computers play in the recording industry.
"It's horrible" says James, a Nashville producer who wishes to remain semi
anonymous, "This could mean the end of Country Music as we know it.".
Is it really that bad? Can a minor computer error actually have that large of an effect on a multi billion dollar recording industry?
"Hell Yes!" exclaims James. "Who do you think is making the music that you hear on the radio? Is sure as hell ain't the artist. Without computers that means no click track. How do you expect a professional country musician to keep time without a click track?" Even worse than the absence of the click track will be the loss of expensive drum machines. "I don't know what we are going to do without drum machines. There are only two or three drummers in Nashville and they don't really work that much anymore. Besides, no
human drummer can recreate the Country Drumming that is performed by drum
machines. Without the drum machine, it just ain't country."
Many performers are scared of the possible effect that the Y2K bug will have on their singing voices. "Now I have to learn to sing", says one award winning artist, "I just don't know if I can do that." In the past, erractic vocals were able to be cleaned up at the flick of a switch. All the computer really needed was the words spoken into it. The compter would then alter the pitch so that every note was perfect. Computer driven audio tracks stored on digital tape and CD would be played at concerts while the artists lip synched and the band mimed playing the licks. "I just don't know if I can handle that type of pressure, actually singing in front of an audience."
"It's the end of my career," moans James. "No more effects loops, no electronic reverb, no sampling no digital playback, no more going in to fix things any more. All of these multi million dollar high tech studios will be useless come New Years Day. After that, all records will have to be cut live to analog tape. There will be no overdubs, no click tracks, no layering, no more fancy effects. It will be just the artist and his music. Who wants to hear that? It's the end of an industry."
Jeff Wall- prospective employee
as well as:
Editor/Publisher/Webmaster/Tyrant
The Twangzine
http://www.twangzine.com
Recording Studios in Nashville, Country Music USA, are packed with artists trying to finish albums prior to Jan 1 2000. Y2K fixes have been installed in personal computers, traffic control systems, the military, airlines, and the banking industry, but no one really stopped to think of how large a role computers play in the recording industry.
"It's horrible" says James, a Nashville producer who wishes to remain semi
anonymous, "This could mean the end of Country Music as we know it.".
Is it really that bad? Can a minor computer error actually have that large of an effect on a multi billion dollar recording industry?
"Hell Yes!" exclaims James. "Who do you think is making the music that you hear on the radio? Is sure as hell ain't the artist. Without computers that means no click track. How do you expect a professional country musician to keep time without a click track?" Even worse than the absence of the click track will be the loss of expensive drum machines. "I don't know what we are going to do without drum machines. There are only two or three drummers in Nashville and they don't really work that much anymore. Besides, no
human drummer can recreate the Country Drumming that is performed by drum
machines. Without the drum machine, it just ain't country."
Many performers are scared of the possible effect that the Y2K bug will have on their singing voices. "Now I have to learn to sing", says one award winning artist, "I just don't know if I can do that." In the past, erractic vocals were able to be cleaned up at the flick of a switch. All the computer really needed was the words spoken into it. The compter would then alter the pitch so that every note was perfect. Computer driven audio tracks stored on digital tape and CD would be played at concerts while the artists lip synched and the band mimed playing the licks. "I just don't know if I can handle that type of pressure, actually singing in front of an audience."
"It's the end of my career," moans James. "No more effects loops, no electronic reverb, no sampling no digital playback, no more going in to fix things any more. All of these multi million dollar high tech studios will be useless come New Years Day. After that, all records will have to be cut live to analog tape. There will be no overdubs, no click tracks, no layering, no more fancy effects. It will be just the artist and his music. Who wants to hear that? It's the end of an industry."
Jeff Wall- prospective employee
as well as:
Editor/Publisher/Webmaster/Tyrant
The Twangzine
http://www.twangzine.com
