How to Choose a Studio in Nashville

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Chris Latham and we're here today at EMI Music Publishing's Nashville recording studio on Music Row with Expert Village. When you're preparing to come to Nashville, something to know, just to give you an idea of what to expect, there are several levels of studios. A lot of the demo houses like we're in right now, County Q, Larry Beer Productions, those houses do a great deal of business and at a very reasonable rate. This studio here rents for $85 an hour. A lot of the other studios in this area are somewhere between $65 to $125 an hour and you're going to get a great product out of those. Some of the larger rooms, day rates might be $1200 to $1400 a day. They're great studios. What makes them a big studio, they'll have a kitchen, instead of one tracking room they may have three or four tracking rooms or more. A real high end collection of microphones. A real high end collection of outboard gear, but you pay for that. Hopefully you're going to want to come back over and over again and keep recording so be mindful when you're setting up your session that you want to be in this for the long haul. That you'll want to come spend a reasonable amount of money your first session in and as you develop relationships here and get to know the lay of the town a little bit, you'll know what your next step is, where you want to go the next time you're here. If you're happy with the first recording experience, keep going back there. Folks love repeat business and you'll develop relationships there that will help things go even smoother the next time that you're here to record. "