Anyone still making a LIVING off recording W/a STUDIO?!

[DaveBlack]

To be able to stay alive in sweden i'd say you need to charge about 3-400$ a day and be booked 3-4weeks very month. And that is not impossible by any means but building up a brand/business name takes time. I have a job on the side, to have some stability.

close to 100 grand a year just to stay alive?? yikes. Or am I just getting thrown off by the fact that you're using the dollar sign $.

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

close to 100 grand a year just to stay alive?? yikes. Or am I just getting thrown off by the fact that you're using the dollar sign $.

Remove over 50% in taxes, add studio accounting, rent, utilities, insurance and all the other mandatory expences of running a business and you're left with a rather modest income

 

[brianhood]

I tend to stay booked up a couple of months in advance. I buy all my plugins and pay taxes too haha.

Remove over 50% in taxes, add studio accounting, rent, utilities, insurance and all the other mandatory expences of running a business and you're left with a rather modest income

ouch

 

[Matula]

On week days I'm always full mixing/mastering. And weekends mixing live shows and/or renting a small P.A. I have. It's all I do for a living.

 

[SkybluestudiosBEN]

I tend to stay booked up a couple of months in advance. I buy all my plugins and pay taxes too haha.





ouch

Thats rad dude! It seems most of us wish it was that way. Well as long as we all stick with it well see what happens.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

This year has been the fucking worst for my studio shit. I've had 2 bands. FUCKING 2. And one of them only recorded one song to boot.

Fucking economy can suck a fat cock.

 

[DanLights]

On week days I'm always full mixing/mastering. And weekends mixing live shows and/or renting a small P.A. I have. It's all I do for a living.

Yeah but how many people in Venezuela do you know that are in the same situation? You're the best known AE in the country, you always have work, but are there really a lot of other engineers/studios that are thriving there?

Btw great job with Scythe last Sunday, they sounded beautiful.

 

[::XeS::]

Remove over 50% in taxes, add studio accounting, rent, utilities, insurance and all the other mandatory expences of running a business and you're left with a rather modest income

And you're lucky in your country. Here in Italy we should pay 50% in taxes too, but we have to pay also all the services, etc....so it would be much more difficult.
Another problem is that in some place, the kids don't care anymore about the sound. Studio A is like Studio B.... bedroom is like big studio...they also see shitty musicians with milions of view on youtube...they don't care anymore about learn an instruments, etcc....

 

[RandomAwesome]

i stay slammed.

I know dat ass is busy, but what about the studio?

 

[brianhood]

I know dat ass is busy, but what about the studio?

HAHAHA ohhhh burrnnnnn