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Originally posted by davemc
Around 50% of work that comes in my place no is freelancers. |
Hey, you talkin' to me?
I've got a great situation as a freelancer right now. There is a recording studio with a good live room and decent stuff in the control room. They are actually making their money off of monthly rehearsal rooms in another nearby building (farms rock, especially when the city grows in around them).
I think their whole concept was to have a personal recording studio the owners could use whenever they wanted, and still pay the bills. Honestly, i think they are happy if they turn on their studio lights 4 days a week. I can save more by using their place for larger things like band tracking, than i could ever reasonably hope to make by building my own studio.
Someday, i do hope to build a reasonable-sized live room in my home large enough to record drums and pretty much anything else that can be overdubbed. But i don't kid myself that i personally could keep a commercial studio afloat, even if all i had to pay was utility bills. I do enjoy my day job, but not as much as i like making and recording music/sound.
Boats will always be more expensive, and have far fewer lasting returns. Although i have run into a few people whose 2 happiest days were the day they bought their studio, and the day they sold it. This pair of owners sold their studio in frustration, and yet the studio basically came with a good booking of commercial jingle clients keeping the place busy for at least 60 hours a week. I think they may have been really lenient on the collection of outstanding balances though. Get a big bouncer/thug with tatoos to work for you as an engineer, just to make people think twice before they pass on the tab.
Just having some fun, none of this is too serious in terms of advice.