Many musicians will be eager to return to recording studios and live-music venues. In the meantime, they too are working from home
LIKE OTHER non-essential businesses, recording studios around the world have gone quiet during the pandemic. “This place is normally just buzzing with music out of every room,” says Viv Broughton, the owner of The Premises, a studio in Hackney, London, which since 1986 has worked with artists as varied as Nina Simone and the Arctic Monkeys. “To hear it silent and empty is horrible,” he says.
a 55% increase in Google search traffic for GarageBand, a piece of music-creation software; Apple, which owns GarageBand, said that there had been 13m downloads of sound effects from the programme’s library since the beginning of February. Manufacturers and retailers of musical instruments say that business is booming; Music Radar, a website, hasin its product guides.
“Even over the last 10 years, technology has continued to progress and prices have continued to fall to record levels,” James Kirby of FutureSource says. “In the current climate an aspiring content creator could pick-up a high-quality USB microphone for $100 or an audio interface and XLR microphone for around $200, and start recording straight away using a good standard of freely available software.
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