5 Things Every Studio Should Do NOW To Take Advantage Of Slow Times

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Home Studio Podcast, Episode 127

SPEAKER_2 (0:03)

Whoa-oh-oh You're listening to the 6 Figure Home Studio Podcast, the number one resource for running a profitable home recording studio. Now your hosts, Brian Hood and Chris Graham.

Brian Hood (0:19)

Welcome back to another episode of the 6 Figure Home Studio Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood, and I'm here with my bald, beautiful, amazing, purple-shirted, gray sweatshirted co-host, Christopher J.

Graham. How are you doing today, Chris?

Christopher J. Graham (0:33)

It's light purple. I purchased three purple sweatshirts just so I could be on brand.

Brian Hood (0:38)

No one can see you right now, so they don't have to take my word for it. So continue on with whatever you were talking about. No one's listening to you anyways.

Christopher J. Graham (0:43)

They trust you, though, Brian.

Brian Hood (0:45)

Chris, what you been up to, my friend?

Christopher J. Graham (0:46)

Quarantining.

Brian Hood (0:50)

Dude, is Andy J. Pizza still work at your office? I see that you're at your office right now.

Christopher J. Graham (0:53)

Well, yeah, I still have been coming to the office because it's private, and I'm pretty much the only person here.

Brian Hood (0:58)

Yeah, I feel like that's pretty much all of America right now, and I'm right there with you, man. But for me, at least, the quarantine thing hasn't really hasn't really changed a lot in my life. I've talked about it in the previous episodes, so we won't go into there. But I will say, I've been playing a lot more video games lately.

I still work normal work hours, you know, from 8 to 5 is kind of what I do every day, and I've been doing for years. But I haven't been playing a lot of video games, but I'm in one of those phases. And I'd say like once a year, generally around this time, usually like in the summertime, I get big into video games, and I think quarantine has sped up that whole thing for me right now.

Christopher J. Graham (1:31)

My oldest son has been playing a lot of video games. He started playing and has beaten the game Zelda Breath of the Wild on Nintendo Switch.

Brian Hood (1:40)

I just got a Switch and I need to play that game.

Christopher J. Graham (1:43)

It's a work of art. It is gorgeous.

Brian Hood (1:46)

I was a fan back in the SNES days. For you young kids, that's the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

I don't know which Zelda that was, but it was great. I haven't played many or any really since then, and I wouldn't mind getting back into it.

Christopher J. Graham (1:59)

It's amazing.

Brian Hood (1:59)

There's just so many games out right now that I'd love to play. There's one thing I'm going to give a shout out to a company called Shadow. You ever heard of that, Chris?

Christopher J. Graham (2:06)

No.

Brian Hood (2:06)

Trevor, who's on episode 76, I think, or something like that. 71, actually. I wasn't too far off. Anyways, he found this company. It's basically cloud streaming PC.

It's like 15 bucks a month, and they set up a dedicated PC in the cloud that you can access from your internet and play games on or do whatever you want with. Video editing. And it's like the super high-end, like really capable gaming PC with very minimal latency, depending on your internet speeds and where you're located, how far you are from the servers. Trevor showed me last night. He was like playing Doom on it, and has like zero latency, first-person shooter, playing from his MacBook Pro.

He's playing a PC that's in a server somewhere in America. It's crazy.

Christopher J. Graham (2:48)

That's amazing. I want that.

Brian Hood (2:50)

Yeah, shadow.tech, I think, is the website. So go check that out if you're bored.

We've sabotaged our own efforts today, because everyone's going to go do that and do none of what we're talking about today.

Christopher J. Graham (3:00)

Why did everyone stop listening to this episode at like two minutes and 47 seconds?

Brian Hood (3:04)

There's a waiting list for it anyways, so even if you sign up now, it'll be a few days to a week or two before you actually get it. But anyways, we're trying to actually help our audience today, not hurt them, and I think I just equipped my audience to potentially hurt themselves.

Christopher J. Graham (3:18)

That's funny.

Brian Hood (3:19)

But I will say, man, sometimes you gotta have a good balance. So it's gonna have like work, it's gonna be building something.