Henrythe8
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You know, sometimes in life, you feel like a wind of change blowing in your face. Slightly. You may choose to ignore it, and only acknowledge the slight breeze and comfort it brings. You caresse that idea but you don't dare. And, sometimes, that fucking lil breeze turns into a hurricnae and you can't think straight until you worked on it.
My wife changed jobs and she's now more than 100km away. Meaning that I have to think of at the very least move and change home. Meaning also that I'll have over an hour of commuting to my job.
So; I'm thinking i'm 44, not really fullfilling my dreams with my day job. So, maybe, I can finally hear the breeze, and start my own company.
Of course, it's music related.
My idea is to create the Bass Sanctuary.
Isolated building, in a commercial area near a city. You have a nice parking lot for 20 cars. After the entry, a small lobby with a desk and a reception area, you enter the central Agora, it is a bar/lounge, with sofas, chairs, tapestries... The room is large enough, to contain 50 to 1000 persons. There is a scene at the far left corner. Basses (ok, and guitars, but man, basses...) are hung on the walla nice inventory of about 75/100 different instruments.
From there, you can turn right and enter a corridor, where you can find 4 small windowed booths, and at the end of the corridor a 30m² room. It's the recording studio, wlinked to each booth that also can serve th prupose of trying the bass and guitars displayed in the agora.
Or, you can either go to your left entering the Agora, in another corridor, and find six rehearsal rooms, soundproofed. of them are equipped, 2 are "bare" so people can come with their gear. Each equipped room has a different setup, different amps, drums.... one is a silent room with no cabinets, just an electronic drums and amp heads used as DI, with a mixing console and in ear monitors.
Ath the end of the corridor, there is a vending machine that provide strings, mediators, bottlenecks... At the right of the machine, there is a stair. It goes up. Over the rehearsing rooms, there is a luthier's shop, with a luthier and an electronics/amp specialist. those two people are outside companies but I rent the floor for nothing, except the upkeeping of the instruments and amps in hte rehearsing rooms.
The idea is to have bands and musicians coming to rehearse and work, but also to host some concerts, and provide recording services and a decent inventory of instruments to be sold or showcased.
I know I would spend my weekends in a place like that. So, why not create it.
I would greatly appreciate your thoughts, it's an idea I have. I know I can have about a year of training in sound engineering before starting the project, and also, I can have two years to creat the project and see if it works with the assurance of getting my today job back if it fails.
Would you go to a place like this ? Do you think there's money to make ? I'm thinking about contacting brands to get one or two instruments to showcase. i mean, I don't want to sell. I jsut think that instead of giving money to Thomann to copy paste a spec sheet on internet, people can come and try the instruments. And then buy thenm from Thomann if they want. It's not too expensive for the brands, and I think it's a more effective way of doing businees.
Anyway... your thought and tips, help would be greatly appreciated. thanks.
My wife changed jobs and she's now more than 100km away. Meaning that I have to think of at the very least move and change home. Meaning also that I'll have over an hour of commuting to my job.
So; I'm thinking i'm 44, not really fullfilling my dreams with my day job. So, maybe, I can finally hear the breeze, and start my own company.
Of course, it's music related.
My idea is to create the Bass Sanctuary.
Isolated building, in a commercial area near a city. You have a nice parking lot for 20 cars. After the entry, a small lobby with a desk and a reception area, you enter the central Agora, it is a bar/lounge, with sofas, chairs, tapestries... The room is large enough, to contain 50 to 1000 persons. There is a scene at the far left corner. Basses (ok, and guitars, but man, basses...) are hung on the walla nice inventory of about 75/100 different instruments.
From there, you can turn right and enter a corridor, where you can find 4 small windowed booths, and at the end of the corridor a 30m² room. It's the recording studio, wlinked to each booth that also can serve th prupose of trying the bass and guitars displayed in the agora.
Or, you can either go to your left entering the Agora, in another corridor, and find six rehearsal rooms, soundproofed. of them are equipped, 2 are "bare" so people can come with their gear. Each equipped room has a different setup, different amps, drums.... one is a silent room with no cabinets, just an electronic drums and amp heads used as DI, with a mixing console and in ear monitors.
Ath the end of the corridor, there is a vending machine that provide strings, mediators, bottlenecks... At the right of the machine, there is a stair. It goes up. Over the rehearsing rooms, there is a luthier's shop, with a luthier and an electronics/amp specialist. those two people are outside companies but I rent the floor for nothing, except the upkeeping of the instruments and amps in hte rehearsing rooms.
The idea is to have bands and musicians coming to rehearse and work, but also to host some concerts, and provide recording services and a decent inventory of instruments to be sold or showcased.
I know I would spend my weekends in a place like that. So, why not create it.
I would greatly appreciate your thoughts, it's an idea I have. I know I can have about a year of training in sound engineering before starting the project, and also, I can have two years to creat the project and see if it works with the assurance of getting my today job back if it fails.
Would you go to a place like this ? Do you think there's money to make ? I'm thinking about contacting brands to get one or two instruments to showcase. i mean, I don't want to sell. I jsut think that instead of giving money to Thomann to copy paste a spec sheet on internet, people can come and try the instruments. And then buy thenm from Thomann if they want. It's not too expensive for the brands, and I think it's a more effective way of doing businees.
Anyway... your thought and tips, help would be greatly appreciated. thanks.
