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Post by ericn on Feb 3, 2015 10:18:57 GMT -6
There was a Craigslist add Music studio $330 month, the email response didn't reveal any more info nor did the phone conversation to make an appointment to see the place. The location was a nice storefront in a trendy neighborhood not to far from my loft. The building looked promising 14-15 ceilings nice cinder block construction. Ok The guy was nice, but it felt. Like a condo time share pitch because it was, this guy has a couple of " rooms " that I can park my gear in let others use for $330 a month, He's a pop songwriter producer, dropping names ( note can't find a credit to his name)
Now here is where I almost burst out laughing , the control room and the vocal booth/ tracking area are 8x12x8, construction is that dirt cheap 3/8in dry wall , fiberglass hollow door with a 1.5in gap on the bottom, window is single pane of glass, but as he's proud of the glass is acoustically angled! $330 a month for a time share of a room smaller than my kids bathroom, heck the solid core Marshfeild door of my kids bathroom cost more than the construction of his studios. Needless to say I passed , I wouldn't be able to fit the Midfeilds Status and my racks in his room ! I mean seriously it wouldn't fit!
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Post by swurveman on Feb 3, 2015 11:57:18 GMT -6
The partner I had a bartering agreement with who had a studio- double wall assembly/separate Control Room/Vocal Booth/Live Room/tuned 60Hz Trap etc. etc. etc - just went bankrupt and closed the studio. I tried to gather a consortium of three other people- who all have basement studios- to pay $250/mo to have access to the studio (with all my top shelf analog gear) and keep it alive. None were interested. So, I had to move all my gear back to my basement "studio", if you want to call it that. The one saving grace is that I paid cash for all my gear and don't have to sell it. But going back into the basement sucks. If I thought I could make money as a commercial studio, I'd rent the space, but after watching him struggle so much, I won't do it.
In an area of 800,000 people, there are now no commercial studios left. None.
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Post by svart on Feb 3, 2015 12:28:37 GMT -6
Yep. Like I said in my other thread, everyone has their own "studio" now. They are completely unwilling to work in even the cheapest, most mediocre "real" studio in favor of their substandard arrangements.
It's nothing but self ego stroking, and I deal with it all the time trying to convince folks to break out of their bedrooms and come to my studio. My studio takes the whole bottom level of my house, and I WANT to get it out of the house and into a proper building, but I simply cannot afford to since I can't get enough people to realize that their 100$ MBOX in a bedroom isn't "Pro" quality, unlike what the GC salesmen have told them.
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Post by ericn on Feb 3, 2015 12:50:12 GMT -6
Now the scary thing is the guy kept talking about his new 10,000 sq ft space and that he would have reception and A Chromakey green screen, it was all he kept talking about. Wanted to tell him a flat wall and $76 worth of Roscoe paint is a green screen!
He did start drooling when I gave him a brief rundown of the gear, when I mentioned I wanted a 2in if I found the right home ! He really thought I was going to park $25,000 worth of gear in his crummy both and pay him $330a month so he could use it!
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Post by svart on Feb 3, 2015 14:32:11 GMT -6
Now the scary thing is the guy kept talking about his new 10,000 sq ft space and that he would have reception and A Chromakey green screen, it was all he kept talking about. Wanted to tell him a flat wall and $76 worth of Roscoe paint is a green screen! He did start drooling when I gave him a brief rundown of the gear, when I mentioned I wanted a 2in if I found the right home ! He really thought I was going to park $25,000 worth of gear in his crummy both and pay him $330a month so he could use it! And you'd better believe that when he broke it, he'd deny it. "it was like that when you brought it in". Wouldn't be the first time I've heard that happen.
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Post by jimwilliams on Feb 4, 2015 10:38:31 GMT -6
The world is a studio. With the advent of lower cost, portable recording gear, any decent sounding space will do just fine. I love rec rooms and garages with A framed ceilings. I love recording outdoors sans any acoustic influence. I love large halls, high school auditoriums and many other spaces I've used. Without needing to haul a huge 1000 lb console and a 450 lb 24 track tape machine, the world's spaces are now open to use.
The traditional, fixed location studio is a thing of the past for tracking, it's best used for mixing.
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