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Filter<\/strong> frontman Richard<\/strong> Patrick<\/strong> got pretty candid with Columbus, Ohio’s 99.7 The Blitz<\/em> radio station about the state in which artists are expected to make records nowadays \u2013\u00a0“Short Bus<\/em> was written and recorded and we made the record for, like, three or four hundred thousand dollars. Now we make records for 20 grand, 40 grand.”<\/p>\n A stark contrast from when Filter<\/strong>‘s debut Short Bus<\/em> was created in 1995, Richard<\/strong> Patrick<\/strong> attributes not only to streaming, but the music industry as a whole: “A lot of really great people are not being paid what they deserve \u2013\u00a0engineers. I’ve had to learn how to become an engineer.”<\/p>\n So, it’s an easy enough connection to make that Filter<\/strong>‘s upcoming record will feature Patrick<\/strong> as the band’s engineer. Because Patrick<\/strong> previously reported that he had been working on the follow-up to Filter<\/strong>‘s 2023 record, The Algorithm<\/em>. And when talking to The Blitz<\/em>, he made it clear that the process is incredibly different from what it used to be: “I’m recording myself in front of my computer, in my studio, and I have a big microphone and a bunch of preamps and stuff like that. And I sit there and record it, and I’m the only one there. There used to be like a guy behind the glass, someone running a tape machine. It was a big operation.”<\/p>\n And that change in environment is not just the case for Filter<\/strong> \u2013 it’s for every artist now, “Everyone has their own computer, a studio system with preamps and compressors and stuff like that, but they’re all in our bedrooms.” And while that can be good in some scenarios, as Patrick<\/strong> highlights that it wasn’t necessarily their choice and that they were “streamlined.” <\/p>\n “We’ve had to learn how to save money, be thrifty. That’s the difference,” Richard Patrick<\/strong> elaborated, “Streaming has taken a massive, massive toll on our industry.”<\/p>\n \n