A recording studio is a room equipped with apparatus specially made for the making and chronicling of audio performances so that they may be kept for replications and reproductions at a later time. There are different kinds of studios in which recordings can be made. Some of which are home studios which are of course built in a person’s house and professional studios which have different specialties like pre-production, sampling and mixing down. Before making a recording studio design, it is important to know what sort of facilities you would want it to have. Finding the right location also plays a vital role in this endeavor. Moreover, whether the studio is to be commercial or personal should also be understood because the two have very differing consequences related to them. Find out what those are in this article.

A home studio, as the name clearly states, is located in somebody’s house. These types of studios could be classified in to two even smaller groups which are the “semi-pro” and the “pro”. When speaking of a semi-pro studio, the resources available in the latter include equipment that are good enough for making demos and experimental materials while staying on a cost efficient budget. A home studio classified as “pro”, on the other hand, means that the place is actually a professional studio, but is just privately owned. This would also conclude that the studio has apparatus found in commercial pro studios and that recordings made in the latter are good enough for market consumption. Read the rest of this entry »