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The practical steps of opening a studio in the US: location, zoning, structure, registration, licences and insurance, plus two famous studios as history.

A recording studio is a set of rooms with different jobs: a live room, a control room, booths and a machine room. Here is what each one is for.

A decision order for starting a recording studio: pick the type, check the competition, find an edge, start small, and only then spend big.

Not every recording studio makes albums. Music, project, voice-over, ADR, Foley, radio and mobile studios each solve a different problem.

A studio’s biggest instrument is the room. Live halls, dead booths, echo chambers and converted churches each gave records a sound you can’t plug in.

Build a recording setup without wasting money: fix the weak link first, buy things that last, and remember Nebraska was made on a cassette recorder.

A business plan for a recording studio, section by section using the US SBA outline, with the market questions and break-even maths a studio needs.

Beyond the gear list: the layout, cables, desk, talkback and headphone feeds a recording space needs so that sessions flow instead of stalling.

First time in a studio? Five things to do beforehand: demo the songs, write an agenda, plan the click, tell the producer your gear, and service it.

How to choose between studios: match the studio to the type of record, then weigh the console, the engineer, location, and the booking terms.