This happened about a week back and I just wanted to bring it up for discussion.
My story is; I had a potential client come to my studio to check the place out and have a chat about booking some dates. Everything was going smoothly until he noticed the ADA8000 nestled in my rack, which is used entirely for triggers.
NOTHING. BUT. TRIGGERS
Which I then explained, he then left saying something along the lines of using behringer gear in any capacity isn't professional. Now I have gone through a Mackie Onyx and a Focusrite Octopre over the last 3 years due to things failing, so far the ADA has lasted a year and been nothing but reliable.
Also I charge $35 an hour for tracking / editing with a set (low) rate for mixing. I am charging roughly half what other (albeit much more experience and more equipped) studios in Perth are charging. I use a Fireface800 as my main converters and run an Octopre and the ADA8000 for extra channels. I'm completely ITB and use PT9 with paid for plugins (you know you've spent to much on plugins when you have a second iLok).
So I'm basically a middle of the road studio, I'm not operating out of a bedroom, I rent out two adjacent rooms at a rehearsal studio, that was built for use as a recording studio (higher ceilings, separating double glass, walls filled with tontine for isolation, I treated the whole thing myself). So its been a serious investment, all up I've thrown around $25,000 at this over the last 4 years. And I lose work over an AD8000.
Has anyone else experience something like this? I realize its your skills that count not your gear, but musicians somehow forget that.
What do you think I should do? Buy another Octopre or something? Scratch the logo off? Hide it?
Also don't get me started on the time I lost the chance to work on a full length because I used Logic at the time.
So apologies for the rant, its late at night and I've been working to hard.
My story is; I had a potential client come to my studio to check the place out and have a chat about booking some dates. Everything was going smoothly until he noticed the ADA8000 nestled in my rack, which is used entirely for triggers.
NOTHING. BUT. TRIGGERS
Which I then explained, he then left saying something along the lines of using behringer gear in any capacity isn't professional. Now I have gone through a Mackie Onyx and a Focusrite Octopre over the last 3 years due to things failing, so far the ADA has lasted a year and been nothing but reliable.
Also I charge $35 an hour for tracking / editing with a set (low) rate for mixing. I am charging roughly half what other (albeit much more experience and more equipped) studios in Perth are charging. I use a Fireface800 as my main converters and run an Octopre and the ADA8000 for extra channels. I'm completely ITB and use PT9 with paid for plugins (you know you've spent to much on plugins when you have a second iLok).
So I'm basically a middle of the road studio, I'm not operating out of a bedroom, I rent out two adjacent rooms at a rehearsal studio, that was built for use as a recording studio (higher ceilings, separating double glass, walls filled with tontine for isolation, I treated the whole thing myself). So its been a serious investment, all up I've thrown around $25,000 at this over the last 4 years. And I lose work over an AD8000.
Has anyone else experience something like this? I realize its your skills that count not your gear, but musicians somehow forget that.
What do you think I should do? Buy another Octopre or something? Scratch the logo off? Hide it?
Also don't get me started on the time I lost the chance to work on a full length because I used Logic at the time.
So apologies for the rant, its late at night and I've been working to hard.
