STUDIO TOUR
Why was it started ?
I ( Akshay BM ) have been a musician for the last few years , and have been playing with bands for almost 7 years now . The problems we faced during our jam session and recording session as a band , I wanted to solve a few of those problems at a very reasonable rate for the budding artists , thus decided to start “ Aalaap Factory ”. Before I started , we had a small jam space inside my house where my band used to Jam often , and I always wanted to rent it out to others and make some small pocket money , but with support of my parents , I ended up setting a professional Jam Room & Recording studio .
Process of Setting up
We had empty space in my dads office building and I decided to utilize this space . Made a proper business plan & PPT ’ s and pitched it to my dad , and he decided to fund me for this project . So I my homework and went though lot of videos and spoke to lot of the Industry experts and made my dream project in span of 3 months . Once I started I wanted to make it big , so decided to do my Masters in Entrepreneurship , which helped me in discovering a new dimension of Music Business .
About the space , Services Offered & Gears you use : ( One Stop for all the music needs )
1 . Sophisticated Jam Room - With Best Equipment ’ s + Live Recording Facilities ( 16 channel mixer , Mackie PA System , Amps , Drums , Guitars , Keyboards , Percussion ’ s , etc )
2 . Recording Studio - Ambient and Well equipped gears ( 8 Channel Interface , Few Analog Preamps and Compressors , Wide range of Condenser & Dynamic mics )
3 . Mixing & Mastering - Very Professional engineers for mixing and Mastering
( We offer both Digital & Analog Mixing ). 4 . Music Production - ( Songs , Short Films / Feature films , Ads , Jingles , etc ) 5 . Video Shoot & Editing - ( We also have a team of video-graphers and editors for shooting Band Music Videos & YouTube Covers ) 6 . Photography team - For Band Poster Shoot & Artist Portfolio 7 . Instrumental Rentals - We rent out Instruments for musicians for their shows / practice . 8 . Voice Overs & Dubbing Facilities 9 . Artist management - As of now we have few bands and artists that we manage under us .
10 . Pantry - Anytime you walk in we have 6 flavors of Tea , Coffee , Juice and a few short eats . 11 . Music Training & Workshops .
Apart from all of this , we also conduct a few workshop and training programs for the artists , we also provide a lot of internships to students We had also conducted the first “ Tea- Party ” for musicians on the occasion of 1st Anniversary of the Aalaap Factory where in 30 musicians were part of the event and few Live performances
Pieces of gear you cannot live without
Its a very tough question , for a Musician like me no gears are enough , I put most of my earnings on these gears and its never ending . So I treat all my gears like my babies and treat them very well . But if I really have to pick one , then I would go with my latest buy “ Warm Audio Analog Compressor “
Describe your typical work day in the studio .
Usually 3 days a week my day starts at 6:00 am , Jamming with my band . Post that I have few recordings and post production work lined up . I also make it a point to have a meeting once a week with all the artists I manage and plan their time table of Gigs , Rehearsals & Releases . Some days we had whole day bookings and sometimes its only few hours of
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