How to Rent a Recording Studio

You've tried your bathroom, and the acoustics are good, but every five minutes or so your five year old knocks on the door and says, "Mommy, can I sing too?" If you're a teen, it's your parents yelling that the bathroom is not your own private concert hall. These comments just won't blend into your sound, so you need to find a recording studio.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Grab a copy of the Yellow Pages or use the online version, and begin your quest under recording studios.

2. Choose an experienced quality engineer. An experienced engineer can do wonders for the quality of your end product, even if you don't have the best equipment or studio. Of course, you want quality in all three, but if you can't have the latter two, make sure your engineer is top-notched.

3. Listen to the CD's of other musicians. If you like what you hear, ask about recording studios that produced their music.

4. Call studios, to save time, and ask about the number of musicians they've recorded who are in your genre of music.

5. Visit studios and listen to CD's of musicians in your genre.

6. Observe rooms in the studio. Studio recording is different from recording live-instruments and vocals are mixed seperately. Drums need a larger area than vocals, which need a smaller, tighter space. That's why you sound so good in the shower. Make sure the studio has varying sizes.