How To Turn a $1,000 Project Into A $10,000 Project

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Home Studio Podcast, Episode 86

SPEAKER_2 (0:07)

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 purple-shirted, bald and beautiful, headphone slut co-host, Chris Graham.

Chris Graham (0:30)

I feel so known, mostly because of the headphones thing. I really do like headphones.

Brian Hood (0:34)

That is legit your thing, Chris. I don't know what my thing is, but your thing is absolutely your love for headphones.

And it's actually hilarious listening to you talk about different headphone models and lusting over them. I remember NAMM a couple years ago. And you were at every headphone stand you wanted to try them on, and you bought some $300 pair of headphones, like in-ears or something, on the spot.

Chris Graham (0:56)

Ah, yes, the Edimotex.

Brian Hood (0:59)

I didn't have an enemy to tell you this at the time, because it was the first time I'd ever met you. But I thought they sounded like shit.

Chris Graham (1:09)

They're not for everyone, those particular headphones. But yeah, dude, it's been funny. I've been getting a lot of messages from people on Facebook, or not Facebook, Instagram.

Chris, underscore, Graham, G-R-A-H-A-M, my fam. And it's funny, I get people that reach out all the time for headphone advice.

It's a known thing. If you've listened to our podcast for more than 30 seconds, you know Chris Graham is a headphone slut. Yeah, I like him. It's probably good that I'm not filthy rich, because I would just buy headphones. Seriously, off the top of my head, I could name 6 pairs of headphones, and I will include in-ears on that, that I was like, I'd buy those right now. There's totally a good reason for me to own those.

Brian Hood (1:46)

It's weird, I'm the same way about coffee stuff. I don't know if you saw this, but the Fresh Roast SR 550, I think, is out now. Did you see that?

Chris Graham (1:55)

Yes, I did see that.

I reached out to them because, you know, we don't really do the sponsorship thing, at least we haven't a whole lot yet. We would, 1,000% would trade some sponsorship for new coffee roasters.

Brian Hood (2:08)

Yes, 100%. Oh, we'll sell out all day long for a new Fresh Roast.

Chris Graham (2:12)

Oh, yeah, yeah. I'll be like, what do you need?

You're going to give me a free coffee roaster?

Brian Hood (2:16)

Yes.

Chris Graham (2:16)

Yeah, I definitely have sent a few emails with that, so we'll see.

Brian Hood (2:20)

If that keeps going, let me know. I'll pimp a new coffee roaster. And if there's another brand out there that just happens to listen to our podcast, for whatever dumb reason, I don't know why a coffee roasting company would listen to our podcast, but if that's you, let us know because we will gladly take a sponsorship.

Chris Graham (2:34)

I did get some very nice coffee in the mail from one of our listeners this week. It's from Red Barn Studio, Jason at Red Barn Studio, and it's, I forget the name, the coffee.

It's really, really, really, really good though.

Brian Hood (2:49)

Dude, someone sent me a box with, like, two pounds of coffee in it a while back, and I forgot to mention it. I need to go look back at who it was that sent that to me.

It's been, like, my wife and I's backup coffee. Like, when I forget to roast coffee or something, we've been using this other dude's coffee as our, like, backup brand. So I need to find this because I love when I get free coffee.

Chris Graham (3:07)

That's amazing.

Crap, what was it called? It was, like, Ozark or Omega? It starts with an O. It's, like, right upstairs.

Brian Hood (3:14)

Will you keep thinking about that? Anyone that doesn't know what the hell we're talking about, Chris and I are huge, huge coffee nerds. We roast our own beans. We, like, are all about the Aeropress life.

My favorite quote for Aeropress is on the package. If I were a robot, my arm would be Aeropress or something like that. Like, that's how I feel. And if you're a long time listener, you know what we're talking about.

Chris Graham (3:33)

Onyx. I found it. Onyx Coffee. Onyx Coffee Lab.

It's really good.

Brian Hood (3:39)

I'm looking it up. O-N-N-I-X?