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Now lets try it again if I buy a small $300K AMS or similar single operator 32 fader digital console.
Financing $295K over 4 years would be about $7300/month or almost $75 per hour of my room rate.
Blake
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You do understand that we are talking more about rooms that charge $500,- per/hour and up.
These are facilities that want to have enough room to have 20 people come in and watch a playback, if they want.
Building and maintaining these rooms is very expensive, so the cost of the console is a very small part of the equasion.
The audio-post budget is a drop in the bucket, and these type of projects want a big room, but most of all the infrastructure that comes along with the size of these type of studio's.
And I seriously doubt that exchanging a control 24 for an Icon will allow you to raise your price 15-20 per hour. Not in todays music market.
And low-budget post doesn't care. they'll have the picture editor mix it in his Avid if they can.