This Pournelle guy is clueless:
From the "Pentium 4: A Coming Revolution...":
"New computer systems like the Intel Pentium 4 have the capacity to let you simulate a 200-channel audio mixer in software. Hard-disk prices have fallen through the floor, so there's plenty of room for recordings on hard drives. Sound Forge, the best of the audio-editing software, is cheap in comparison to renting a sound studio or making a deal with a recording company."
The idiot has no clue what a sound studio is about.
A decent mixer/digital recorder can be below $1999,
much cheaper than the P-4, not counting for high-quality
low-noise input preamplifiers and digitizers. He has no
clue that the major, major cost of a studio is in
careful acoustic design, with properly places sound
monitors, wireing, mike stands, reverbs, etc, etc, etc.
He thinks that a good studio can be built in a garage.
Besides "slightly" tilting and curving walls of his garage,
I wonder what kind of responses he would have from
neighbours and their homeowner's association...
Revolution... What a cheap clown! |
