How to Find & Choose a Recording Studio

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FREDERICK BURCHELL: Hello, my name is Frederick "Ricky B." Burchell with B4 Entertainment on behalf of Expert Village, and today we're going to talk about producing, manufacturing, marketing and distributing your independent CD. Now, let's talk about the recording studio. Now, the recording studio is the first part that you need to check out when you're recording or you're starting to produce a record. The first thing you need to do is go to a recording studio and hear the sounds of the studio. Another good thing to do when you're looking for a recording studio is network with other artists. You get that other artist CD that you've been networking with, they may be independent and local, you get their CD and you listen to it. You hear the quality of it. You say, "Man, I like the way that quality is. Where did you do your recording?" Once you know where they did their recording at, you can talk to the recording engineer and see how much they charge for the studio time. But what you want to do also is take that CD of that artist and compare it to a major label CD. See how good the quality sounds. If they sound similar, then I would record there. If it doesn't sound as good then I wouldn't record there. That's the main thing you gotta check out is the quality. And another thing you want to do is when you're finding a recording studio, you may go to the rest of the recording studio and hear the sounds in the studio, the speakers are sounding good, everything they sounded good, but what you need to do is take a copy of their work. Get a CD from them and play it in a system that your familiar with because lots of times, people go to this recording studios and they sound great in the recording studio but as soon as you put it in a CD player or in your car, it doesn't sound that good. So what you want to do before you even select a studio, get a copy of their work and listen to it on a system that you're familiar with. Not just go to studio and listen to the stuff at the studio, listen to it in a system that you're familiar with and then that is how you can find a good recording studio, networking, and taking your time and listening all the people's projects. Also when you're recording, make sure you find a recording studio that has 48K/24 bit. Lot of times, anything less than that is okay quality but 48/24 is the minimum of the recording studios that you need to record at. You can go higher but don't go any lower than 48/24 and you have a good quality sound but then when they put it down on a CD, it looks--gonna be 44/16 bit but it's best to start off high and then go down low.

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