why people build studios

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why build a studio?

  • For homerecording excellence. My next album's gonna kick ass all around the block.

    Votes: 344 74.5%

  • For commercial purposes. My studio's gonna draw more custom than Abbey Road.

    Votes: 58 12.6%

  • I just wanna build the best studio in the world. I started off in music, but I got sidetracked. No

    Votes: 60 13.0%
  • Total voters
    462
Why does the index page for this section say my previous post is 3 hours old when it's over a week old? :confused:
 
I didn't really "build" my studio. I converted a so called spare bedroom into a studio, but I guess that qualifies. I write my own music, and over the course fo the years I've learned how to play a couple other instruments ( electric bass is really my instrument). I started recording so that I could see if transfer compositions that were in my head onto tape. to see if i could blend guitars, vocals, keyboards etc into a song. My equipment & my songs are simple & basic but as someone said - It does keep me home and out of the bars - As with anything you learn the basics and then begin to add things and learn as you go - I'm not trying to get the best recorning on the planet., I just want to hear what my songs sound like. - I'm having a blast, and the band I play with enjoys the songs and makes suggestions for the tracks too.
 
diggy_dude said:
Why does the index page for this section say my previous post is 3 hours old when it's over a week old? :confused:
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Because it's not a simple thread, but a poll. And when someone polls without posting, the last modified time of the poll is still updated which looks like there's been a post.

Cheers
Tim
 
I'm building a studio to fund my own recording and performing habbit, I've had friends in and charged for demo's and have invested the money straight back into my studio and for some reason they want to come back after because I get a killer piece of gear lol :P
 
timkroeger said:
Because it's not a simple thread, but a poll. And when someone polls without posting, the last modified time of the poll is still updated which looks like there's been a post.

Cheers
Tim
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That makes sense, but it's a bit misleading to those of us who don't pay attention to the polls.
 
i do it simply because i need it.. haha. i love music.. i love to make music.. i have people come in and record, i charge for studio time, i charge for mastering, but i also have a sweet place to record and write my own stuff, get it out there, and enjoy doing it.. Its for me.. thats all.. lol
 
I don't know if what I have counts as a studio. Lol. I am running very minimalist at the moment. Some of the essential stuff is still en route to me for that matter. BUT I am putting together something that resembles a home studio for the purposes of home recording and composition. Also, because I cannot afford a lot of higher end gear, instruments, synths etc. going digital just makes sense for the purposes of composing pieces (and space is a hell of a premium in my situation), this on top of the fact that the people involved in the music project are going to have to play multiple roles out of necessity. It's the only way that I can imagine it working with anything even remotely resembling efficiency. I DO like gear, when I have the opportunity to nerd out on it.
 
JESUS MAN! seems like you need to do some country cleaning!
 
I built and continue to build mine for a number of reasons.
1. I play music most of the time and need somewhere to play it and record it as hiring a studio all the time would be prohibitively expensive. I can record any time I like for as long as I like.

2. I can spend ages on my records getting them just how I want them. I want to keep as much control over the sound as possible and recording it in my own studio seems the best way to do this.

3. I like building stuff. I'm into all the technical stuff that surrounds recording and I enjoy just putting it all together and making it work.

4. It's fun
 
Hi folks! I originally started setting up my studio so I could record my own music. For the first 3 years, I just bought a device here and a device there. I didn't do any kind of treatment or anything. Last year, I got to a point where I realized my engineering was becoming good enough that other musicians that went to studios with better equipment and space, felt that I gave them a higher quality sound. The way my home studio is currently setup, some things I purposely did, while other things happened by chance. My home studio is simple and my equipment is entry level to moderate, but I blow people away with my mic box hanging from the ceiling. I am going to upload images in the "let me see your studio" posting in a couple days.

Some of the picks you folks uploaded are so awesome. Just glancing at the desks, setups and layouts makes me feel like I can imagine the type of sound given off in the environment. I love music, but I love everything that happens before the music is even created....
 
I've found that getting a melodic idea out into the audible world is one of the most fulfilling experiences I've ever stumbled upon. I'd like to have no middle-man in the process as to keep the original idea in tact, so the studio acts as my middle man and life is focused around making good use of it ( by making good music.. among other things )
 
I have a modest set up at home so that I can record songs I write for our band. Just acoustic guitar and vocals...then I give that to the other members so they are familiar with it before it gets to practice time. Our violin player prefers writing her parts alone so it works out pretty well for us.
 
I don't ever want to rely on other musicians when I write my stuff, I just need their limbs on stage. My first home studio was an old casette 4 track and a microphone monitored through a home stereo system.

I hated not having a band to just do what I say when I want, and thought "4 tracks, GTAR/BASS/DRUM/VOC... cool, I'm good now..."

I can spend time trying to teach someone how to play a simple drum part, or I can play it myself and give him a recording of what it goes like and let him learn it on his own terms. Same goes for a bassline or a guitar riff.

I don't believe in shared songwriting as a norm, or bands being a democracy. Bands are a dictatorship rotating on a song-by-song basis. Band members are just extra limbs who are fun to have beers with. If one of them writes a song, I'll play the part they want me to play too, but for my stuff, I like to write it myself, show them how it's supposed to sound, and let them work their way into it. The home studio is the only way to do that.
 
James K said:
I built and continue to build mine for a number of reasons.
1. I play music most of the time and need somewhere to play it and record it as hiring a studio all the time would be prohibitively expensive. I can record any time I like for as long as I like.

2. I can spend ages on my records getting them just how I want them. I want to keep as much control over the sound as possible and recording it in my own studio seems the best way to do this.

3. I like building stuff. I'm into all the technical stuff that surrounds recording and I enjoy just putting it all together and making it work.

4. It's fun
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Hi-five. Basically my reply exactly.
 
As a little background information about myself, I own a professional studio and have my own personal home studio as well, for when inspiration strikes (I live 45 minutes away from the studio).

That being said, I started my own studio, because there are only 2 other professional studios in my entire state, and after being a "customer" at both studios, I left feeling like a price tag instead of a musician, and after talking to other musicians that knew back then, they said that they felt the same way. Because I had a passion for music, I felt as though these studios were shedding a bad light on the music industry as a whole, so I pretty much created a company on the whim of "it's time to show musicians that going to a studio and recording shouldn't be a chore".
 
I just bought a really expensive house in a quiet neighborhood, because I can afford to do that. And when I'm recording, I tell everybody in the house to stfu...and then I beat them if they aren't silent. My wife forgot once and slammed a microwave door. She had a hard time explaining 2 black eyes, but she did ok, I guess.

Don't tell anybody about how I beat up my wife, though...I don't wanna' have to kill a cop.
 
chrisharris said:
I just bought a really expensive house in a quiet neighborhood, because I can afford to do that. And when I'm recording, I tell everybody in the house to stfu...and then I beat them if they aren't silent. My wife forgot once and slammed a microwave door. She had a hard time explaining 2 black eyes, but she did ok, I guess.

Don't tell anybody about how I beat up my wife, though...I don't wanna' have to kill a cop.
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:rolleyes:
 
The same reason people spend $10k on a guitar rig or a drumset.
 
I have all my own equipment and gear for the same reason I own all my own instruments.

Sure some $3k mic would sound better.

But how much would it cost to hang out at even some budget studio, recording your music whenever you are in the mood/have the time - for, say, a few years?
 
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