A Pro Musician Answers Your Questions About Professional Music

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Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

The live world and the recording world are surprisingly separate from each other. The live world is sort of the slums of the music industry.

FWIW, the same is true from the mixing/engineering side of things. Setting the mix for a live performance is a completely different beast from running things in a nice studio, and depending on the venue can require much more skill to do it well, yet everyone I've ever worked with would still rather do anything in a studio than run a live tour, no matter how big or famous. Maybe because in the studio you're the "engineer," while on tour you're just called a "roadie."