Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on low-budget home recording studio compared to a professional recording studio.

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on low-budget home recording studio compared to a professional recording studio. It was revealed that the evolving face of mass media has been creating a lot of mergers and costs are being cut by advertising clients and broadcasters. Demand for content is driving a lot of production for fresh and innovative formats with smaller production costs in order to broadcast more content for television, mobile, and the web. The number of production work with downsized costs democratized single-staffed audio studios who can deliver high-quality work at a much lower price. A number of a single individuals who has a fully-functioning home set-up can now pitch for simple to high-end accounts granted by broadcasters, film outfits, and even a few independent record labels. The library research and the personal interview with sound designers both revealed that Pro Tools, a software used for recording, editing, and mixing sound has been proven to help the growth of independent home-based business for its reliability and cost-efficient as it replaced more expensive closed-architecture sound editing systems that were used in the early 1990s.

Library research was employed in order to extract information on the most current market figures in clients’ advertising spending and current opportunities, if any, for home-based sound designers. Downsizing costs in the midst of expansions proved to be a good climate for freelance and outsourced work as proven by our 20 subjects. As all the 20 participants stated that the start-up costs of their home-based recording studios ranged from USD 3,500 to USD 8,000, depending on their choice of set-ups, a number of peripherals they wanted to acquire and their geographical location, they also shared the fact that they have all been employed full-time by professional recording studios or post-production companies for more than three years before they set out to launch their home-based businesses. All of the participants believe that they were seasoned audio professionals in the field of the sound design before they ventured into home-based businesses.