
CrowsofFritz
Flamingo!
This is a very interesting thread. I'm thinking about starting up a studio similar to the one Jim made in around a year (as in it's meant for 1 person), but with a different take than most other people. My style of payment will differ. I'll ask $10 at the door for new customers, and from there, I'll ask money per piece of equipment they use and for how long they want to use it. My main deal will be MIDI software and electronics. So I'll have all the best MIDI software (Komplete Ultimate, Ivory II etc...) and very nice tools to use them with. I'll also own a couple of super high-end instruments (like a Roland Fantom G8) over time to attract customers who don't want to use MIDI. I will also have a selection of DAWs, maybe Pro Tools, Logic and Reaper, which I will charge different prices for. (For an example, using Reaper would be drastically cheaper than using Pro Tools.)
So basically, I'd charge them to hook up, say, an Axiom Pro 61 to my Pro Tools for 3 hours, and I'll charge to use Komplete 8 for those hours. I don't know the exact prices I'd ask for but that's the idea. So it's basically an hourly rate but I charge by what equipment they use and not overall time. So if they're okay with using the lower end equipment in my studio, they could still leave with a good sounding recording without spending much. But the people with enough cash to use my higher end equipment would be using some of the best stuff out there for the kind of music they're good for. It would open the studio up to people who are virtually broke as well as those with serious money and they could all leave happy.
This is possibly around a year away from actually happening, probably longer, but does anyone have any opinions or thoughts on this? Does anyone think it could work?
I wouldn't charge different prices for different DAWs