What is the difference between a commercial studio and a home project studio?
Good question! Because of the ubiquitous nature of personal computing, the availability of home recording software makes having a studio at home affordable and quite do-able! Therefore EVERYONE has a studio. And everyone owns word processing software. That does not make them an author!
This is the way I see the difference. If you built your studio for yourself to record your own projects with only a passing interest in recording other musicians, then you have a home project studio. If, on the other hand, you wan to go into the business of recording musicians, voice-overs, film and TV spots, sound design and all other audio applications, then you have a commercial studio. The difference is in the concept and not necessarily in the physical location or the size of the space.
My studio, Blue Cave Studios, is a home project studio that leans more towards the commercial. I have a day job and I do not support myself with my studio income. I built the studio for myself, but I do enjoy helping others get their projects done. I dabble in voice-overs and have composed music and sound design for theatrical productions. I just do it on my own schedule.
Why use a HPS? and How to exploit the advantages of both large and small studios.
If you have diligently mapped out your recording process, you will see that you do not need to be in a big commercial studio in order to record everything. When a large studio could run you $100 plus per hour a HPS will go for $25-50 an hour.
- record big things at the expensive studio:
- drums, string sections, grand piano, chorus
- record small easy things at a HPS
- vocals
- hand percussion
- quickie guitar solos
- background vocals
Check out the studio BEFORE you record there.
An obvious statement that should go in every section of this eBook. But even if you’re going to just do a few overdubs, check out the room and the engineer. See what mics and preamps they have and whether they can handle the bit rate you want to record at. Is the room quite enough?
How do I find a good HPS?
Well you can always call me – www.BlueCaveStudios.com
But if you are no where near Sandy Hook, CT, then I suggest you use these two websites:
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