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Originally posted by Dave Martin
Well, Dark Horse Recording is, according to their web page, "just twenty minutes from Nashville's Music Row and just five miles from Franklin's town square", so it doesn't really count as isolated. After all, they can go into Franklin for lunch...
Well, I've had guys complain that my room, 20 minutes northwest of Music Row, is a long way to go for a session...
Part of the question is figuring out your target market - if you're plannig on using session players, 2 hours IS a long way to go; if you're planning on attracting producers to bring in bands and work with them over a period of weeks, then perhaps not. But how much of that is going on these days? More important, can you convince these producers want to come to your place? And there are other questions, of course - how is airline access? What provisions for lodging can you make? Can you create something that comes close to
http://www.longviewstudios.com/
And if you can, how can you attract the clientele to keep it open? |
Yes, Dark Horse is within 20-30 drive to music row and is even closer to Brentwood where a lot of music offices and people's homes are as well as a lot of hotels...
so Dark Horse doesn't compare with a place 2 hours out, it's just a nice drive out.
If you want a wide variety of clients then I don't think that a place in the middle of nowhere is the answer. Places in the middle of nowhere are more oriented to someone who really loves your room and is willing to lock it out for a week or more. It's also oriented to people that want to stay away from home...some do some don't. I think it's more of a gamble and will not ride the economy as well....but of course, there ARE ALWAYS EXCEPTIONS...