Hey everyone,

My name is Art Garceau and I have a home studio in the suburbs of Chicago. It's nothing fancy, but I keep building it up as the days go on, and I'm taking as many clients as I can.

I was wondering if anyone knows how I can get my foot in the door at a commercial studio? I love working in my home studio, but it's hard to get bands to trust you when you aren't running a large format console or loads of outboard. With that being said, the only bands I've been able to get until recently are high school aged bands that don't have it together so it's hard to deliver a decent product. The sound quality turns out nice, but the performance is awful.

Fortunately, I have an indie label (British Records) that is going to be sending some work my way, and I have Enforsaken from Century Media Records coming in for the Dimebag Tribute CD that I'm organizing. All of the recording on the tribute CD is being donated by me to show some love for Dimebag and try to raise some money for his memorial fund. So technically I can't really say that Enforsaken is a "client" since they are only coming in because I'm offering the time for free. Maybe they will like it and book time with me....I'll keep my fingers crossed!

Now I'm just rambling and lost my train of thought. Anyway, does anyone know of a studio that would be willing to take on a paid or unpaid intern? I feel that I'm on the right track with my home setup, but I'd like to observe a larger production and get a feel for the "pro" enviroment. I've already spoken with the owner of one of the "big" studios in Chicago, and in some many words he told me that since I don't have a degree I can go pound sand.

Thanks for reading this and any comments would be appreciated!

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