Should I Start a Commercial Recording Studio Or Stay In My Home Studio

[@jagervolant7871]

Best answer: if you can afford to have it whether it makes money or not… Say you are financially at a place where you can rent a small commercial space and still afford all your other bills… sure build out your dream studio… If not… don’t do it… You will have impending doom hovering over you each month and will result to working on projects you don’t even wanna do just to pay the rent. Miserable existence type shit. Home studio anyone can do with no risk.

[@rivmusix]

My idea was to rent a house (to love in) and section off a certain area of the house to rent out to bands and their engineer. So like deck out a room as the studio as well as space for instruments and equipment and a bathroom. What would you think about that?

[@johantt2591]

Very good perspective. I was thinking about a middle of the road option. Like if 80 % av the jobs are mixing and 20 % recording, it would make more sense to work from the home studio and ocasionally rent a big recording studio for specific sessions. If the focus is recording and I let someone else do the post it might be better to have my own recording studio.

[@AdamClairmont]

Yes good points here 👍

[@outlawedbeats]

I have to explain why I'm trying not to get a stand alone building all of the time and you said exactly what I say. I tell clients all of the time when you are paying more to go to a commercial studio, a lot of what you are paying for is the building, electric, and staff. Some commercial studios are absolutely wonderful, but many artists don't realize they might be recorded by interns or low waged engineers (who may or may not be good at what they do) because maintaining the cost of a high dollar studio is expensive! I always say artists will come to the studio because of what they have seen or heard, but they'll stay because of an engineer, so I always think artists should be going with the right engineer more than where they work out of. Working with greatness is sometimes a fleeting opportunity, so finding the most talented engineers locally is important.

[@AdamClairmont]

Very well put. Proof is in the pudding. Or some such thing... Thanks for the comment and best of luck this year ☺️

[@BigStereoVR]

Do you have a work load that requires hiring more engineers/ housing bigger bands? Are those musicians financed? Then yes, get a commercial space. Do you intend to be the sole professional in the building? Only work with groups under 5 people? Do you take on business that can't do the business side? No, do not waste your money or your soul. Modify a shed.

[@AdamClairmont]

Your soul? Ha! Good points. Thanks man!

[@cutseencinematics]

@@AdamClairmont yes. 100% 'Soul' in this context is too accurate :(

[@atcordice]

You are on point. This is the truth.

[@AdamClairmont]

Thanks! Aim to help over here!