You buy a compressor plug-in for Recording Studio London, and you can use it on 40 tracks at once. You don’t have to buy 40 compressors.
The last frontier for all studios and especially home studios and smaller studios in home sized rooms is the acoustics. If you can’t hear accurately what you’re doing in the control room when mixing, it’s going to be a crap shoot. Standard operating procedure is you do a mix, you burn a CD, you go out to the car, you listen to it. Then, you copy and you transfer it to a mp3 file, put it into your iPod. How does it sound in the ear buds? And then, you come back.
The whole point of buying high quality expensive monitors is you’re supposed to hear accurately what you’re doing, but you can’t do that. It just doesn’t happen in a small room. With a lot of base trapping, you can really fix that problem. And then, it’s not only can you hear more accurately what you’re doing, but it’s a pleasure to mix. It’s actually much more fun. You can turn it up and you go, “Wow, that sounds great,”