Hi Jay!! I have placed comments within your message. Hi all, I was wondering, how much would it cost me to build a nice professional studio, with the latest in technology, and both me and engineers from the sighted world could use? complete with control room and a vocal booth. both Mac and pc interface, that way I could run it as well as sighted people? Thanks Hmm, that's a really difficult question to answer. You could spend millions of dollars on this or, a few thousand. What kind of budget did you have in mind? It's such an open question. Where are you planning to build the studio? Do you have somewhere to house it or, were you planning to have a purpose built structure to house it in? What kind of audio equipment do you already have? Could some it it be incorporated into the studio thus, saving you money? Regarding the second part of your post well, you don't necessarily need to have both Mac and PC recording systems in order to run a studio as well as someone who is sighted. There are a number of totally blind individuals running Pro Tools successfully on Mac systems. There are also quite a number of visually impaired individuals running Sonar on the Windows platform. a number of sighted people work both on Mac and Windows based systems. The issue isn't whither as visually impaired engineers, we need a Mac based system in order to work with sighted engineers. Nor is the issue whither as a visually impaired person, we should all go with a PC based system running Sonar. What is more important is that as producers/engineers, we have a good pare of ears, and a good understanding of the tools we are using, whither that be on a PC or, Mac based system and whether we are visually impaired or not. Having said that, from an accessibility point of view, Sonar Producer with Sonar Talking on a PC is the best option around at the moment. Regards, Phil Muir P J Muir Productions URL: www.philmuir.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Thompson" <jayken2000@xxxxxxxxx> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:43 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Building a professional studio > Hi all, I was wondering, how much would it cost me to > build a nice professional studio, with the latest in > technology, and both me and engineers from the sighted > world could use? complete with control room and a > vocal booth. both mac and pc interface, that way I > could run it as well as sighted people? Thanks > Jay Thompson > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Sports > Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football > http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq