amorris wrote on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:17 |
if i read you correctly, youre asking about how to run a studio and make money? understand your market. serve your market. dont try to do hit records in peoria. there is a lot of business anywhere for people who want to do the work people there want you to do. not what you want to do for them.
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It's discouraging butt you have to turn a buck.
As far as Peoria goes, it's too late. I have the sickness. I won't record for money. I'd rather burn my gear. I'd rather cut my teeth out with a dremel tool.
Where the real vise on your balls comes in is when you won't record shit you don't like and a band you do like won't follow you over the edge....then....
you're fukked...
In the mean time, there's the business side of things. Following a budget, completing daily shit....it's tough.
It has nothing to do with art. You have to be two seperate mother fukkers.
Do any of you believe that you can be a better person and run a studio at the same time. There comes a time when you have to kick people in the ass...you are at that point no longer their bier drinkin' buddy.
When I first came to this forum one of the biggest things that impressed me besides, "use your ears" I had no idea what that fukken meant, but the other main point was, "if you are an asshole people won't come back." At the time I thought, no problem. That was my major strength, I saw how others could not empathize with the musician and I received only positive feedback once I opened my door. But time is fukken money. And most of the time Peorians don't understand that.
And when you do so many nights til 3 a.m. and then your paperwork falls behind...and you're paying late fees...and you miss opportunities and you're always playing catch up...there comes a time when your time management spills over to the drummer getting off his ass and making it happen.
So the goal is art...in another hour jackass...hop fukken hop!
Any thoughts...
tik