Potbelly Studios: The Home Recording Blog

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Studio Setup: Acoustics Pt. 1

So, you’ve decided what kind of a studio you want to create:

* Mix some loops and record some rhymes
* Voiceover work
* Songwriting/Project Studio
* Recording a full band

And, you’ve decided on how large of a space you’re going to need.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about starting a project studio for home recording is that you really need to plan things out before you open your wallet. As testament to that, right now there’s a pile of unused equipment that will be going up on ebay pretty quickly that was at one time, ‘had to have’ equipment.

Poker, Podcasts and Portable Recorders

So how did this all get started?

This time last year my business partner, Dan Starr (5minutepianolessons.com) and I started discussing the creation a website to teach piano lessons to adult students. Dan’s a really good piano teacher and I’m pretty competent with design and marketing. It seemed like a good fit.

My idea was this: let’s gather all of the posts that Dan had been doing over the past three years and combine them to create the basis for the site. I’d build the site and, in the meantime, Dan would resurrect a number of books he had written or started to write and get them finished. Pretty soon we had a site and product to sell.