How much should I be charging with recordings like these?

[Steve Henningsgard]

Thought of this thread when I heard Allaire was closing. The studio business is getting tougher and tougher, being good isn't always enough. Grammy winning multi platinum albums couldn't keep it open.

Sad, very sad......


http://allairestudios.com/home.html

Hopefully someone will pick it up and keep it as a studio: that place looks amazing!

 

[NL5]

Hopefully someone will pick it up and keep it as a studio: that place looks amazing!

Maybe an artist with enough money to not need to make money on the studio. It's a VERY tough time to try and open a "for profit" studio. I still think if you want to work with bands, being free-lance producer is WAY smarter than trying to be a studio owner. All the reward with NO RISK. Plus, you can work in facilities you would never be able to own yourself.......

Like I said, you can negotiate amazingly low rates at big studios here, as they are all struggling. Meanwhile, literally a million GC chargecard studios have opened up - I doubt if even 10% are actually business's though........

BTW - I saw in your other thread that you were charging $10 and now $15. You are doing WAY better work than any of the GC studios around here that charge that much or more. Certainly have a way to go yet, but don't we all!

 

[ecktronic]

here in the cleveland area we have a 28 dollar an hour studio with a neve, an SSL, a couple seemingly nice rooms and an assload of great gear. however, it's worth way less than that. enough said.
Mike

Hmm, why not hire an engineer then if the inhouse engineer seemingly doesn't have a clue what hes doing going by the price?

Eck

 

[Steve Henningsgard]

...I still think if you want to work with bands, being free-lance producer is WAY smarter than trying to be a studio owner. All the reward with NO RISK. Plus, you can work in facilities you would never be able to own yourself.......

That is my eventual goal: I get a lot more satisfaction from pre-production, tracking, deciding where to record, working with arrangements/harmonies and stuff, than I do from mixing. My dream job would be producing, working with a tracking engineer/assistant, then sending it off to be mixed (overseen by me) & mastered.

I know it's a long way off, but I've gotta start somewhere!

 

[ecktronic]

That is my eventual goal: I get a lot more satisfaction from pre-production, tracking, deciding where to record, working with arrangements/harmonies and stuff, than I do from mixing. My dream job would be producing, working with a tracking engineer/assistant, then sending it off to be mixed (overseen by me) & mastered.

I know it's a long way off, but I've gotta start somewhere!

Ill be your mix engineer then...... only if ya make it big.

Eck