When is a Studio really a Studio?

[SonicClang]

For me it's always been a frame of mind. Even when my studio was nothing more than a basement and construction zone, we still called it the studio, because I never wanted to treat it as anything else, like storage space or anything like that. The end goal has always been to have it be a studio so that's what I've always called it. I can honestly say that it's more of a studio now than it ever has been in the past, but still, it's not done.

So technically I think it'll be a studio when the rooms are tuned and treated so the bass response is around +/- 6db and all that fun stuff. And after I've recorded a full length album and proven myself and the rooms.

A bedroom is still a bedroom if you don't have a bed in it. A kitchen is a kitchen even if you don't cook in it. And a guest room is still a guest room if you don't have guests there. If it's a place you use to create music, it's a studio. That's my opinion.

 

[zacanger]

It's easy. You just need some form of recording media, and one of these.

Speaking of those, I just got myself two new ones. I was at the mall waiting for my girl to get off work on Sunday, and I wandered into Spencer's, and there was a gigantic one for sale. Unfortunately my backpack wasn't that big....

 

[Robert D]

I think any space that's been dedicated to and optimized (to some degree) for recording deserves the term "project studio". If it doesn't meet that, then it's a "recording setup". "Recording Studio" denotes a commercial facility.

 

[Nick_Black]

i say it's a studio if you can record a full band. otherwise you have a beat off room. plus i agree it's what you put before the name... i myself have a "lame studio"

 

[Mindset]

I think any space that's been dedicated to and optimized (to some degree) for recording deserves the term "project studio". If it doesn't meet that, then it's a "recording setup". "Recording Studio" denotes a commercial facility.

That's basically exactly right.... and how some people in the industry look at it like.

 

[Dani Pace]

A home recording "studio" and a professional studio are very different spaces for creating similar results. While I think of a studio as a space dedicated to a specific purpose, in this case creating and recording music, other spaces can be used with equal effectiveness in many cases. The place I refer to as my studio is seperate from the house I live in, has two rooms for playing/teaching/recording, one room for extra gear storage, one room for repairing instruments, it's own bathroom and private drive/parking area. For many years (before moving to our present location) my living room served the most of the same purposes as my studio does now, but I always called it "the living room," I never called the living room "a studio."

 

[timboZ]

It's a studio when you start recording real bands and not EMO crap.

 

[Be Loveless]

A bedroom is still a bedroom if you don't have a bed in it. A kitchen is a kitchen even if you don't cook in it. And a guest room is still a guest room if you don't have guests there. If it's a place you use to create music, it's a studio. That's my opinion.

ditto,
I have a basement studio ( just try taming knotty pine walls with cubicle panels, I dare you). It's a designated area where music happens and is recorded. And just like I might read the paper in the kitchen, I'll fuck around online while in the studio. However it's primary purpose is for recording music and rehearsal so I feel confident in calling it a studio.