opening a recording studio

thegrove54

in dublin city center..its not going to cost loads like most do i was just wondering if bands will be interested in this before i actually put money towards it.

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judas101

Err... ya might wanna put some infor up there chief.

Mics, preamps, converters, drum kits, amps, plugins ect.

Also, prices and samples of your work.

Are you a qualified sound engineer with studio experience?

drumdrum

^^^Listen to Judas101!! Good points there!


Might I suggest that while you are getting things together that you perhaps offer out some free slots to people just to cut your teeth with your new gear and more importantly to get some examples of your work out there?

Once you get a couple of tunes done well you could use these to entice paying customers.

But please.....understand any and all limitations of your gear before going to record any band. I had the unfortunate experience of recording at some studio in Kildare with me oul rock band (Incubus-ey kind of vibe). The engineer only ever had experience of recording singer/songwriters and he figured "hey! how hard can it be?". End result?
Sounded like choking a duck with a spare rib! (sorry Im hungry at the mo!)

The recording sounded weak, no energy (which is needed for rock music) and the vocals (which we were promised would be "fixed") were hardly touched! I mean, the guy DIed the guitars FFS!! Im a drummer and even I know thats bad! The drums werent gated correctly....argh! needless to say it was a nightmare and I would never recommend that place to anyone again in a million years!
Anyways....Ireland is a small place so make sure you know what you are doing because when it comes to anything musically related, reputation counts!
<rant over! >

thegrove54

judas101 wrote: »

Err... ya might wanna put some infor up there chief.

Mics, preamps, converters, drum kits, amps, plugins ect.

Also, prices and samples of your work.

Are you a qualified sound engineer with studio experience?

Going to be getting a digidesign c24 console with pro tools hd

mics on order are all rode akg and shure

amps and drums are not decided on yet.

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thegrove54 wrote: »

Going to be getting a digidesign c24 console with pro tools hd

mics on order are all rode akg and shure

amps and drums are not decided on yet.

cant go wrong with shure 57s, we use it for snare and guitar cabs. The AKG D112 is great for kick, and bass guitar cabs.

When you are uploading samples, make sure its of a high quality. First impression is everything. Take that into account when you are getting a band to record your samples. I have seen it before, a young band i know spend a weekend in a studio recording a 2 track demo. They wasted a day doing the drums, their drummer got nervous and couldn't drum to the click. The engineer ended up recording the drums for the band.

Best of luck with the studio!

judas101

thegrove54 wrote: »

Going to be getting a digidesign c24 console with pro tools hd

mics on order are all rode akg and shure

amps and drums are not decided on yet.

Its not a market I'd enter right now.

The advent of home recording has changed the concept of the recording studio.

Also, there's pleanty (well at least a couple) of proven good value studios so unless youre sure you can get great results for a decent price Id think twice about it.

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judas101 wrote: »

Its not a market I'd enter right now.

The advent of home recording has changed the concept of the recording studio.

Also, there's pleanty (well at least a couple) of proven good value studios so unless youre sure you can get great results for a decent price Id think twice about it.

+1

Robin Ball

judas101 wrote: »

Its not a market I'd enter right now.

The advent of home recording has changed the concept of the recording studio.

Also, there's pleanty (well at least a couple) of proven good value studios so unless youre sure you can get great results for a decent price Id think twice about it.

+50!

I opened a facility in '08 just before the recession. It's got a gear list to rival some of the best in the country. Currently it's all packed away at home. If I was doing it again I'd be thinking very differently. If you have a particular skill then you need to market that toward your customer base, have a good name and reputation and be known by enough people that the word will spread. (So you can pay the rent!)

I have since started to specialize in mixing myself which is going well. People are very happy with the results and word is starting to spread. Ireland is a small place, you can't afford to mess up the first few clients. Word spreads.

Also, buy second hand... I spend almost €200,000 setting mine up, if I had bought 2nd hand I'd have saved a lot of cash.

Best of luck.