General Music Chat

Hey,


I'm looking into opening a rehearsal/recording studios space and just wanted some feedback from musicians as to what they look for in a studio, your answers would be much appreciated!


What do you look for most in a studio?
1.Cleanliness

2.Good Equipment

3.Price

4.Hours

5.Room Size



What is the average prize you pay for a studio? (Per hour)
(Example: $15-20? $25-30?)



What size room fits your needs most?
(Example: 11x17,20x20,etc)



What hours do you rehearse?
1. Between 12:00PM - 4:00 PM

2. Between 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM

3. Between 8:00 PM - 12:00 AM



What days do you rehearse?
1.Monday

2.Tuesday

3.Wednesday

4.Thursday

5.Friday

6.Weekends

We like to work with studios that can accept a wide format of recording platforms. Our guitarist, bass player, singer, and drummer have different programs ranging from ProTools, Cubase, Sonar and Garageband. To minimize studio time, some instrument tracks are recorded at home and then sent to the studio for assembling. All files are recorded on a click track and it's important that the sound engineer at the studio has the capacity and technical expertise to work with the various formats. This is what we think is important.

for a practice space we look for
-gear
-price $20.00 per hour @ our usual spot
-size
practice Sunday nights 7-10 -ish Pm

I look for my keys, and occasionally my beer.

I look for a keg on tap.

Some of my favorites didnt have a restroom, you had to go outside. Not the best AC in the world, you know where you cut off the AC to record so it doesnt get on the tracks, plus a bong on the control board always seemed to be a good sign to me!

Honestly rates and a flexible time schedule and an engineer who would listen to what I wanted up front and deliver it, in the end you have to put out good product, no matter how many M&Ms are in the candy jar.

Two very different spaces with different needs:

Rehearsal space: Clean, decent size, reasonably good sound system.

Recording studio: Acoustically tuned so drum and vocal recordings sound great. Quality mics, gear, and people who really know how to use it. An engineer with a few hit records is a biggie.


Business observation: Rehearsal space will probably be your bread and butter with very little $$ investment. A recording studio lives and dies on their last successful recording. Cutting edge recording gear is expensive and walks out the door a lot. Very very few recording studios are profitable and there are 100 project studios in every town.

The pair of glasses that I require to find my good glasses.

I like to look for change that has fallen out of client's pockets that has sunk to the bottom of the cushions on the generally soiled sofa

I like a studio that has good rates and solid engineers that know when to let people do their thing.

I can hit the head outside, no problem.

I don't need A/C, but I'd never complain that "it was too cold".


Above all, I like a studio that can keep their "hands to themselves".

If I am not there and you want to screw with the piece in question, you had better be 100% correct about what you think you are doing or your ears are going to tingle.

Nothing worse in this world than to get 10 hours or so into a song and have to roll back the version because someone felt like "helping you out" even though you didn't ask.

Thanks for your input to those who replied. Appreciate it!

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