How to name a startup location recording company....

[jrbr85]

Would appreciate some feedback on naming schemes. I am focusing on starting up my own location recording business to gain back some of the money that I spent on gear (yikes!), and wouldn't mind some ideas for a name. I don't have a home studio, so I would be traveling to venues to record mostly live performances, and I specialize in classical/acoustic music. I live up in DC, so I was thinking something along the lines of "Silver Spring Records", or "Silver Spring Location Recording", "Silver Spring Productions", etc., but this sounds sort of bland (dfegadthe silver spring part haha), and I'm in an uncreative mood right now . Any help appreciated!

[mikesilence]

"SLRC"

[videoteque]

Home delivery records
At your place or at my place records
Omnipresent records
Local Silver records

[d_fu]

Originally Posted by videoteque

At your place or at my place records

Your Place Recordings... ©me...

[Recording David]

Sounds a bit too much like Mark Linett's company: Welcome to Your Place or Mine Location Recording

[d_fu]

Didn't know that one... But in this case, there is no "my place"...

[NorseHorse]

G-String Recording

[joelpatterson]

How about just "Silver Recording Service"?

It doesn't really matter what you call it, as long as you are reliable and do a good job and are entertaining to the customers.

[Studiodawg]

"Beltway Recording Services"
"Argyle Location Recording"
"Sligo Creek Sound"

[jrbr85]

Originally Posted by mikesilence

"SLRC"

Not sure what SLRC means, so I looked it up on an acronym finder:

Southern Legal Resource Center
Sri Lanka Rupawahini Corporation
South London Rifle Club

I kind of like South London Rifle Club Recording

Originally Posted by NorseHorse

G-String Recording

C'mon now, that's just plain sleazy... If I combined that with "Your Place Recording" I think some people would be getting the wrong idea tutt

[boojum]

This won't help you any, but I am blessed with a strange last name: Noyes. I always thought that "Sound by Noyes" would be cool.

Joel is right, though, your name must just equal "good work."

[fallforward]

Sure I can edit out all of the coughing/crying babies/slamming doors Recording Service

I can set up 12 mics in 18 minutes while opera singers get in my way screeching me-ee, may-ay, mah-ah, mo-oh, mooo… Inc.

Piano tuning? LLC

Yes that mic has to be there… Mobile Service

Yes Maestro I can record an entire symphony 4 bars at a time and then edit it together without it sounding “fake” even though you are a cheater. & associates.

Seriously though…

You should just pick something that has a little meaning to you personally and is fun to say so that people will remember it. Just my opinion…
Robby

[rumleymusic]

I called my business Rumley Music and Audio Production, for a classical recording business, a simple, to the point, name is usually the most trusted.

People started using the acronym R-MAP, which I hated at first, but it kind of stuck.

[locutus]

"Two Guys and a Mic"

Oh wait, maybe "Two Mics and a Guy"

[hughesmr]

Originally Posted by locutus

"Two Guys and a Mic"

Oh wait, maybe "Two Mics and a Guy"

LOL ... good one.

[abtech]

Watergate Discreet Recording Services

[equallyscrewed]

Originally Posted by jrbr85

I kind of like South London Rifle Club Recording

Shotgun recording?

[jrbr85]

Originally Posted by abtech

Watergate Discreet Recording Services

Haha, I can see where this thread is going over the next few days...


Maybe "Patriot Act Recording Services", or "Wiretap Audio Productions" would be an appropriate name for the DC area??

[hughesmr]

Maybe being in DC, it would be fitting for you to advertise how your sound is completely transparent, but then in reality use the most colored gear you can find.

[locutus]

Originally Posted by hughesmr

Maybe being in DC, it would be fitting for you to advertise how your sound is completely transparent, but then in reality use the most colored gear you can find.

I thought in DC they only ever used a pair of 57's with the original windscreens.

[Murton]

I would advise using your name. Aka myself RPM Audio which is Russel Phillip Murton Audio as I am trading under my own name to escape having to register a business name as I can use my own and it's industry area.

For example, some nice names in my area: Billy Hyde Music, Johnson Audio. Same also use the geographic area in which they operate aka Turramurra Music. And some use generic sounding names like Sound Devices and Soundcorp all based on the industry which whilst not bad, don't really offer a personalisation as to who they are, although they are multi location businesses.

So, your name + industry area is my reccommendation. As you are a freelance engineer, it will help to advertise your own name with your business name.

[Jungle-Jim]

Irrespective of what you ultimately decide to name your company, you may find that looking for a "clear" name in the following three areas might help eliminate a lot of possibilities from consideration.

By "clear" name I mean something at you can use universally, without causing any confusion.

The three areas you need to look at are:

1. A unique corporation name for the District of Columbia.
2. A unique name that you can trademark (think long term success).
3. An unused domain name that you can use for your website address.

Ideally, you come up with a name that is identical for all three purposes. That is, it would be great (and really unconfusing) if you have a name (i.e. "IBM"), that is the name of your company, your trademark, and also your web site address.

I found this to be much harder than it sounds, and if nothing else, will help eliminate a lot of names that are already being used.

If you haven't checked yet, you can get basic D.C. business formation legal info at:

District of Columbia: Business Resource Center: Business Planning

If you are unfamiliar with doing trademark searches check out TESS at:

Trademarks

Finally, most big ISP's (like Go Daddy) have a domain name search mechanism that you can use to see if that great company name is available for use as your internet site name.

Of course, if you come up with a killer name, but that company name is already registered, and it's already trademarked by someone else (e.g. selling fireworks), if the domain name is available, then you might want to use it and dummy up any kind of official corporate name and go with a logo that's cool but not registered.

[yrplace]

Originally Posted by d_fu

Your Place Recordings... ©me...

We are already Your Place Or Mine Recording out here in California..... have been for years

Welcome to Your Place or Mine Location Recording

Mark

[d_fu]

Originally Posted by yrplace

We are already Your Place Or Mine Recording out here in California..... have been for years

I know - see postings # 5 & 6 above...

Daniel

[crypticglobe]

I don't think the name matters much. We have had a lot of success with location recording... and our name doesn't really imply that we even do that.

[Studiodawg]

My location recording company for the past 11 years is "Digital Acoustic"...for what it's worth...good luck picking a name.stike

[sonare]

Originally Posted by jrbr85

Would appreciate some feedback on naming schemes. I am focusing on starting up my own location recording business to gain back some of the money that I spent on gear (yikes!), and wouldn't mind some ideas for a name. I don't have a home studio, so I would be traveling to venues to record mostly live performances, and I specialize in classical/acoustic music.

Try to think like your prospective client-- (a classical musician) and consider a musical term. When I came up with my name I thought of the "canzonas per sonare" of Gabrielli. Never thought that about 10% of the time people would say "SONAR RECORDINGS?? I then reply that it is "so-NAR-eh and I leave the underwater work to others."

Sometimes they even laugh--

Rich

[Remoteness]

SSR = Silver Spring Recorders

[Howie J]

My legal business name with the state is Superior Sound Productions. I changed it from it's original name that was based off my nickname, Howie. Ironically it came to me since I had just moved from Duluth, MN living on Lake Superior and the north shore brought a sense of peace, class, beauty....kind of what a great classical piece can. (Not the act of recording one since we know that can be a CF) After searching around, my name is competing with about 4 DJ services around the US. While I DO DJ here and there, I don't advertise those services.

Howie J

[big country]

Topsy turvy or flux capacitor

Topsy turvy is a name of an invention that I'm sure the invention came first

flux capacitor , is the technical name of an invention that has tec never been invented but the name tells you what it does

are you a technical engineer from go or are you a make it happen type from where ever kind of engineer