Rainbow Girls

I think the fact that people don’t draw a striaght sloping line with a million points along it from bedroom’ to studio’ is a huge hindrance to creative thinking here. What is a studio? A great sounding room with great equipment. A purpose built one has various modifications to make things easier but they aren’t crucial to the recording process. What matters is gear and room sound. It may well be that there are bits of a recording that need to be done in a purpose built studio. But there are loads of options if that’s not possible. The best drum sound I’ve ever recorded wasn’t in one of the many studios I’ve worked in it was in a stone 14th century farmhouse in italy, using a crossed pair of Octava mics, that cost about a3160 on eBay. incredible sound. Studios do a thing, they do it well, but it’s not a thing that stands in between musical ideas and great recordings.And, even if you do decide to go with a studio, there are lots of ways of getting studio time and space for cheap or free that benefits everyone. Leave the expensive studio time and space to those who can make a reasonable assumption of their ability to recoup. I wouldn’t be averse to spending 50K on making a record, as I said in the podcast, it would make certain things possible, but with portable studio tech and some smart thinking about acoustics, you can make world-beatingly amazing records on a 1/10th of the budget it would’ve cost for an equivalent quality recording 20 years ago.