Self Service Studios

https://www.prosoundnetwork.com/rec...utm_term=444e14c1-4001-42ae-9f44-612974eeb692

 

The concept is good. I wonder what kind of insurance services they have because they'll need them.

 

You Sign FULL Responsibility for use of their facilities!

House Rules:
We want you, and the rest of the Pirate community, to have the best possible experience using our facilities. To help us achieve our goal of having a brilliant and safe community environment, we ask that you stick to a few ‘house rules’ when using Pirate Studios:

• You take full responsibility for the room, its contents and the people you allow in during your booking.
• Absolutely no smoking or vaping anywhere on the premises. Any breaking of this rule, by you or your guests, you will be fined. If the Fire Alarm is activated by any smoke/heat, you will be charged at a higher rate.
• No drugs to be consumed; please be aware that our security team monitors our CCTV 24/7.
• You are welcome to have some mates in the room with you during your session, but they enter as your guest and you take full responsibility for their actions and behaviour whilst at Pirate Studios.
• Keep doors closed and respect other musicians in the studios.
• If you switch them on, remember to turn off the air-con, or heater fan, before you leave.
• Keep all liquids away from the equipment and if there are any spillages, make sure they are cleaned up straight away. Blue roll can be found in the kitchen.
• Tidy up at the end of your session; place all litter in the bins provided. When leaving the studios, please respect our neighbours. Keep noise levels to a minimum and litter levels to zero.
• In case anything breaks during your session, please let us know as soon as you can. Contact us via live chat or call. We carry spares on site so you can get back to playing again straight away.

If you have any questions about the above, feel free to contact our customer support team who will happily clarify things for you.

 

I would be very surprised if it is profitable for them in the long run.

 

I guess that nobody so far would actually need or use this service from at least these few replies to the thread as these days the vast majority of those creating music do so in their own home studios. Perhaps a band would come in to record, but anybody else probably wouldn't need to.

 

I know the rehearsal room biz and I know musicians - some of them like to break cymbals, spill beer on amps, vomit on the carpet, sex each other, snort lines off the bassist, ect ect..... You need someone there to check on the status of a band/room after they have finish their booking.

From what I can tell the rooms at all locations are tiny. The "recording rooms" are big enough for a keyboard-( so it seems geared to FL users not bands and drum kits) and some even come with a vocal booth - Wow. All construction looks cheap and there will be nasty bleed from one room to another. But they look like they are making money for expansion and could be the next MacDonalds of the recording studio scene.

 

great idea. taking the bank loan for 4000 SSL9000 consoles, analog synths, guitar/bass amps, mikes, furniture should be easy peasy.
sounds like a believeable story

 

Public space by a private company?

 

Maybe it's a money laundering scheme by an international drug and sex trafficing ring. I might be wrong, I can't imagine the idea bringing in real cash, booking out the facilities at any time and the rooms becoming scuzzy sooner rather than later.

 

If a savvy music equipment accountant showed any young new band the math with purchasing P.A's, equipment and all the money bands spend early in their inception how much it costs to buy a decent computer and turn it in a DAW with a decent audio interface and inexpensive microphones - this will fail. Every musician who worked clubs, pubs, arenas, halls, concerts no matter the genre, knew the term sex and drugs and rock 'n roll... Ian Drury even wrote a radio tune about it last century. This is an inherent nature in very young musicians. So everything this 'opportunity' offers if that is what it is? - goes against nearly every rock, metal, hard rock and indie band's default nature. perhaps not so much for classical and Christian bands but for the rest of the genres in young people, it is likely.
For around 5K they can record themselves perpetually. The cost of buying their own gear would perhaps pay for itself in two sessions there.

 

I'm sure that it could be done for under 2500 bucks buying used gear, no problem (including cabling).

 

What's the difference between someone renting a local recording studio block w/o an engineer vs this?

And how are they going to keep Tyrone Biggums and his aspiring rap artists from doing a disappearing act with the gear?

 

The facilities Staff have OnSite under security monitoring so Nobody is makin off with any gear!

https://pirate.com/en/

 

If David Copperfield could make the Statue of Liberty disappear in front of 200 people...shit happens.

 

An actual recording studio will accommodate an actual band. This place doesn't!

It makes me sad that in these days when all the cool warehouses and rundown buildings that we musicians have been jamming in for years are disappearing by the day due to gentrification and whats left is being taken by a shit companys.