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Hiring a Studio | Episode 9 - Coffee Mornings with Tomas George

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Channel: Tomas George · 2017 · Education

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Today’s question is ‘Should I hire a studio?’

Hiring a studio can be useful for a couple of reasons. 

The first one is the equipment that you will get in the studio, that you might not have at home. Of course, you can do a lot of the production at home, you don’t necessarily need an outboard compressor or outboard reverb. However, it is useful to get used to outboard gear. I do feel a lot of people are using digital plugins and I personally think that outboard gear is a lot nicer to use. 
I personally really like the compressor on SSL desks and they are always good fun to use!

Having a nice studio can also push you and motivate you to work harder. When you’ve booked that studio for only a few hours, you’re not going to waste time, you are going to make sure you use that time wisely and you are going to make sure you use that time effectively, compared to being at home on your laptop,  where you can make excuses not to make music. 

If you have a time slot that you are paying for in a studio, then there will be no messing around, you will have to make sure you make music. 

When you give that level of financial investment your brain should switch on and then it’s time for music making.

The other reason I think hiring a studio can be useful is that it gets you away from your house, it gets you away from your laptop and go somewhere in a new environment to write music and it can spark some new ideas.

If you can’t afford a studio, as hiring a studio can be quite expensive, just go anywhere different else to write music. This could even be getting a cheap flight to another country and working in a coffee shop, or somewhere with a different location, where you are there just to write music.

Making music somewhere else for new inspiration can help compared to just staying in your house, as you can get quite unproductive just staying in your house all the time and trying to write music with so many distractions. 

My answer for ‘Should I hire a Studio’ is yes if you can afford it. If you are just starting out, I wouldn’t break the bank just to hire a studio though. If you are just starting out, try to write music somewhere else now and again just to spark some new ideas. 

If you invest money into either hiring a studio or travelling somewhere to specifically write music then you will force yourself to write music rather than wasting time as you’ve invested either time, effort or money into doing this.

I remember a band I used to play in quite a few years ago, we used to take our equipment down to a little cottage in Cornwall in the middle of nowhere which had no phone signal or distractions and we were there just to write music. 

When we drove down there it took about 8 hours to get there and we arrived after all that time, we actually wrote some of our best music as it was music time when we were there.

Studios are nice, but if you haven’t got the money to hire a studio, just go somewhere else to write music and invest time or energy and your time should hopefully be spent writing music.

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