ABSTRACT
Because emerging multimedia operations, home studios, and project studios have become a more important segment of the recording industry, our business has been redefined. The larger mothership studios now understand that part of their diversification strategy is servicing the small satellite studios at virtually no extra cost to themselves. These new clients provide significant additional revenue, and are not really competition. The benefits of getting more business by providing services like “Do the mix here,” or “Let us do your duplication,” or “We will provide you with tech maintenance at $X per hour if you do all your outside work here” make sound business sense. It is again the basic “make or buy” decision. If the larger studios can provide alternate services for the smaller studios, the smaller studios can concentrate on providing the specialized services that they do best. Count on the big guys to do what the little guys cannot afford to support—or do not know enough about—as long as the project44gets done on time and within budget. This entire discussion is based on the premise that you have now made the decision to own a recording studio facility that will provide services to the professional audio industry.
