Here are some pics of the studio that are almost a year old. I need to take some updated ones. I have more acoustic treatment I made in the booth now and for the control room.
I've been doing music for about 15 years as an indie artist and recording/mixing other artist's work for about 10 years. Last year I converted my garage into a recording studio.
The whole point of the studio from the beginning and still today has never been about the money. When I started no one around me had access to a professional recording studio or even a set up that would provide respectable sound quality. I got tired of waiting for other people to open doors and I decided to make a few sacrifices and build a place where people with very limited resources could have access to high quality equipment.
I was unemployed for a year and was able to keep the bills paid purely on music and studio time sales. It was a very stressful year not because of having to live off the studio, but because of having lost a job I was at for 10 years. The experience of losing my job, compounded by raising my daughter and the birth of my son, ignited something inside of me that had been in the back of my mind for a very long time.
The safety of having a regular 9 - 5 job comes with a price that I find myself no longer interested in paying. I want to be in a position to be my own boss; working with the people I want to work with, setting the hours I want to work, building business partnerships, creating jobs, and further building a platforms.
Right now the studio provides a decent side income but with it being in my house I am limited in operating hours, and in the people I feel comfortable allowing to come into my house. I'm 100% conscious that moving to a commercial location would mean that I would still have to work my 9 - 5 and go to the studio at night for several years before even thinking of doing the studio full time. I'm willing to sacrifice the time. Music is my passion and sitting in a studio after work everyday is something I already so in my garage whether I have someone recording or not. I'm sharing this background info to establish that I'm 100% aware of the general risks and rewards in working for yourself, and I'm 100% committed to grinding for as long as necessary but I have one major obstacle: Fear.
The getting started is what has me afraid the most, so I'm hoping there are a few people on here that are working for themselves either part-time or full-time that can give me some advice about overcoming that fear and share their experiences of being a business owner. If anyone has experience with a commercial location I'd love to hear about that experience as well. I've talked to a few local business owners and heard great things. I just want to get over this brick wall in the pit of my stomach that continues to put doubt in my mind.
I've been doing music for about 15 years as an indie artist and recording/mixing other artist's work for about 10 years. Last year I converted my garage into a recording studio.
The whole point of the studio from the beginning and still today has never been about the money. When I started no one around me had access to a professional recording studio or even a set up that would provide respectable sound quality. I got tired of waiting for other people to open doors and I decided to make a few sacrifices and build a place where people with very limited resources could have access to high quality equipment.
I was unemployed for a year and was able to keep the bills paid purely on music and studio time sales. It was a very stressful year not because of having to live off the studio, but because of having lost a job I was at for 10 years. The experience of losing my job, compounded by raising my daughter and the birth of my son, ignited something inside of me that had been in the back of my mind for a very long time.
The safety of having a regular 9 - 5 job comes with a price that I find myself no longer interested in paying. I want to be in a position to be my own boss; working with the people I want to work with, setting the hours I want to work, building business partnerships, creating jobs, and further building a platforms.
Right now the studio provides a decent side income but with it being in my house I am limited in operating hours, and in the people I feel comfortable allowing to come into my house. I'm 100% conscious that moving to a commercial location would mean that I would still have to work my 9 - 5 and go to the studio at night for several years before even thinking of doing the studio full time. I'm willing to sacrifice the time. Music is my passion and sitting in a studio after work everyday is something I already so in my garage whether I have someone recording or not. I'm sharing this background info to establish that I'm 100% aware of the general risks and rewards in working for yourself, and I'm 100% committed to grinding for as long as necessary but I have one major obstacle: Fear.
The getting started is what has me afraid the most, so I'm hoping there are a few people on here that are working for themselves either part-time or full-time that can give me some advice about overcoming that fear and share their experiences of being a business owner. If anyone has experience with a commercial location I'd love to hear about that experience as well. I've talked to a few local business owners and heard great things. I just want to get over this brick wall in the pit of my stomach that continues to put doubt in my mind.
