How to Start a Home-Based Recording Studio Business by Joe Shambro

Author:Joe Shambro
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780762767731
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Published: 2014-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

Control Room Checklist

Does the room offer good isolation from other areas of your home and from neighbors?

Is there room for the equipment you require in your control room?

Is sufficient power located in the control room?

Aside from your control room, you’ll need at least one live room. A live room is the actual space the person you’re recording will work in. If you’re only doing vocal recording, this room doesn’t have to be large—just enough space to fit one or two people comfortably. In the recording industry, we call this type of room an isolation booth. This live room will need to be connected to your control room with both audio tie lines (for input, with typically XLR connectors for microphones and output, via either a headphone amplifier fed by your recording snake or a wireless monitoring feed) and power (for lighting, small musical instrument amplifiers, and recording devices that might require a power feed, such as tube microphones). Isolation rooms are called such because they’re truly isolated from the surrounding areas, and acoustically near perfect. You’ll want this room to be as absolutely dead as possible, and void of any interference and noise from the outside. This room will be for recording critical, precision items such as the human voice; keeping away outside noise is one of the things a professional studio can offer that sets it apart from a bedroom-demo studio that many musicians have.

Building this room is, most times, a challenge. Homes weren’t designed with perfect acoustics in mind, especially the kind of isolation we’re looking for. Isolation rooms can easily be made out of walk-in-size closets, and they can also be readily crafted in a corner of any given room, especially basements (where you have a floor above you; believe it or not, this allows you to easily construct what’s called a “room within a room” to make near-perfect isolation a reality). If you’re in a rented home, converting this space can be an even bigger challenge because of existing restrictions by the property owner.

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