The "Old Model" Is Dead - The Future Is In YOU and Your Home Recording Studio

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Home Studio Podcast, Episode 1

SPEAKER_3 (0:07)

You're listening to the 6 Figure Home Studio Podcast, the number one resource for running a profitable home recording studio.

Brian Hood (0:19)

Hello and welcome to the very first episode of the 6 Figure Home Studio Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood, and I'm super, super excited to bring this podcast to your earbuds today. The entire point of this first episode is just for me and Chris, my co-host, which you're going to meet in a second, to break down the why behind this podcast. What is the point of it? Why do we want to do it? What is in it for you as the listener? And I think we touched on a few key points today. We may have gone off on the weeds in a few areas, but the gist of today's episode is this.

The industry has changed drastically over the past 5 to 10 to 15 years, and that has opened up some massive opportunities for you as the listener. The solo home studio owner or assumed to be home studio owner.

And we dig into that more into the episode. The other thing that we talk about in this episode is how much education resources like podcasts have been crucial to not only my success, but my co-host's success. And to just give some sort of brief introduction to my co-host, his name is Chris Graham, and he runs a website called chrisgrammastering.com. He is a fellow 6 Figure home studio owner, and I chose him as my co-host because he is super knowledgeable about a lot of areas in business and life, leadership, paid advertisement, systemization, automation, and just being a decent human being. He's smarter than me. He's more well-educated than me. He's got that college education, and the man likes to talk, which is awesome for podcasts.

You will learn a lot more about Chris in a future episode where I actually interview him, but that's enough for now. Without dragging this intro out any further, let's just go ahead and move into the actual episode right now.

Let's talk about this. Why do we need another freaking podcast in the recording studio space? What are we doing that's going to be different than anything else that's out there? Why do we need another podcast, and why do people want to listen to this podcast?

Chris Graham (2:11)

I would say what this podcast does, the other podcasts don't do, and more specifically, what an education in audio won't do, is we address the lie, and the lie is if you build it, they will come. If you are good at something, people will hire you, and all you need to have is passion, and that's enough to do art for a living for the rest of your life.

Brian Hood (2:38)

I wish that was the case. I wish it was that easy. Oh yeah. But how many of us know, and you maybe, if you're listening right now, you may be one of them, how many of you guys know or can think of someone that is awesome at what they do in the creative space, whether it is recording or something else, or an artist or whatever, and they're not successful. They have no success. The starving artist mentality.

What is it that makes the successful one successful?

It's not always talent. It's not always ability. What is it?

SPEAKER_3 (3:04)

Yeah.

Chris Graham (3:04)

And you know, talent's certainly an important ingredient, but it's quite secondary to these other skills, at least it was for me. You know, like I was, when I first got started in audio, like I was pretty good at it. I was better than most, but I was a dirt poor because I've made stupid decisions.

And my stupid decisions, while they were like dedicated to making great art, ultimately made me make less art because I was so poor. You know, me and my wife, our first year of marriage, we made $18,000 combined.

Brian Hood (3:40)

Oh my God.

Chris Graham (3:41)

In our first year, we were dirt poor, but I still was spending thousands of dollars on gear that didn't make me any more money. It was just this like, well.

Brian Hood (3:52)

Were you playing the debt game back then? Were you buying it on debt? Or were you actually saving money for that off that measly income?

Chris Graham (3:57)

No, we were so frugal, we would actually pay cash.

Brian Hood (4:00)

So still smart, but just poor.

Chris Graham (4:03)

Just so poor. You know, we were living in the hood, and the, excuse me, I didn't mean anything offensive by that, not the hood.