True or false, everything today can be recorded direct except wind and brass instruments (and those instruments are rare in music today anyway). Drums replaced by e-drums. String section replaced by synth software. No need for a vocal booth because there's no bleed from anything, worst-case use a bedroom closet. Therefore the studio is not needed anymore, the entire process is done in a spare bedroom. All players getting individual headphone mixes.
So isn't wanting a studio for audio, like saying someone wants a darkroom, for photography. (Which no one needs because only the 0.1% of photographers does developing anymore) A studio is outmoded. Where are the literary writers saying they want a large salon & library-room to type a novel on a typewriter, gone, now replaced by a small desk, a harddrive of ebooks and a word processor, only the 0.1% hipster wants to recall the "old ways" with a mechanical typewriter.
What is a recording studio today?
If I had a cubicle desk job still, I would covertly store a collection of audio gear in a filing cabinet and requisition a conference room after-hours or weekends as a 'recording studio' for bands, when the cubicle maze is deserted, and on the side of any buildings with the accounting & marketing guys etc, it's deserted anytime after 5pm and certainly on weekends, always, seems like they 'never work'. Acoustic treatment? What for? There's no mic's except on the vocalist. Ironically. After working in a local recording studio on a couple tiny projects part time recently, I can basically say that I want almost nothing to do with quote unquote musicians, especially young musicians, double-especially young vocalists.
I like pipeline's comment about, essentially, networking at shows. Pick & choose the bands to work with that way as well, rather than they-come-to-you. And also recording live instead of in-studio. That seems like a cool way to go. Record live at regular record-store parties, that would be cool. The trendy-trendy new music shows on social media like Tiny Desk concerts, Band In A Van, etc, are recorded semi-live, in unusual settings, with a small, controlled audience. Plus video as well. The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus. Make the studio mobile. Redefines the meaning of the phrase "pimpin' out my ride."
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