We've all read things about Steve giving breaks to help record bands with very little money.

I make exactly $12,000 a year as a PhD student, and it would take me about 3 years to afford the posted rates on this website. Does crying poor work or does it just piss Steve off at this point? I can imagine that a lot of people trying to take advantage of his generosity might make him a little touchy about it.......

i once tried to convince him he should records my band for exchange only of some cheesy breads. he punched me in the nuts, and then punhced my mom in the nuts, too. i got mad, but me and mom went out for cheesy breads after the punchings so it was okay. but i never recorded with steve. i think he wants a LOTS of cheesy breads for one sessions.

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ginandtacos.com wrote:We've all read things about Steve giving breaks to help record bands with very little money.

I make exactly $12,000 a year as a PhD student, and it would take me about 3 years to afford the posted rates on this website. Does crying poor work or does it just piss Steve off at this point? I can imagine that a lot of people trying to take advantage of his generosity might make him a little touchy about it.......

The posted rates are at a deep discount to what our studio should charge based on conventional business thinking. Everyone who works here makes a huge sacrifice (making less money than he would elsewhere) in order to keep the studio affordable to our peers. You asking for a break would force me to tell the generous men of Electrical that I couldn't pay them (not even the little they have come to expect) because this particular client, through no fault of theirs, was a PhD student.

As an aside, I make exactly as much as two PhD students, so I'm not in a position to be cavalier with money myself.

If you can't afford to make a record here, I sympathise, but I can't make it any cheaper for you.

I do sometimes give "breaks" to my friends or people who become friends or bands I am otherwise exceptionally sympathetic to. I do this knowing that I'm pissing-off Novotny and making the studio lose money, so you can imagine how special those circumstances are. If we haven't already had long conversations about this and other things, then you can be pretty sure you are not in that category.

There have been posts here about other good, inexpensive studios in Chicago, which I encourage you to search for. We are not particularly in competition with any of them, and I don't mind them getting your business if we're too expensive.

Thanks for the response. I wasn't trying to issue a backhanded insult to the effect that your prices are high. I know they're dirt cheap, and I'm sure everyone who has ever worked with you appreciates it.

I believe the best way to keep your recording cost down is to be prepared. Before you go into a studio, you should work on recording and fine tuning your music at home. This is the real value of the home studio. There are plenty of inexpensive ways you can record at home. This is the time you should work out your music. Do not wait to get into the studio and then try to figure out what works and does not work. If you are in a band, practice before you go record. To me this sounds like a simple and straight foward method of cost control.

electrical is silly cheap. so okay.

True. It would cost more to record in a studio in my home town. Plus all the guys there are great.

Not sure if this relates. But lets say you have tunage that for all practical purposes, are worth even professionally recording.

Then lets say, you know you suck and need studio musicians to pull it off. Does Electrical offer such a thing?

And if so, what do the studio musicians make? I noticed there are "staff" but I am thinking that has nothing to do with studio musicians.

I should point out I am in Georgia. Why not record in Atlanta? Because I respect the work of Steve and other artist freinds of mine suggested him as someone who would be a great match for my tunage.

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I should point out I am in Georgia. Why not record in Atlanta? Because I respect the work of Steve and other artist freinds of mine suggested him as someone who would be a great match for my tunage.

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