How to start up a recording studio in Nigeria.

You already have the required knowledge in sound engineering and sound production. With the fast growing musical industry turning over millions of Nair in, you can develop your own musical business and start reaping from the growing industry. The steps below should guide you into creating your own studio. 

But before we go into the steps I want you to know that the music industry is a serious business in Nigeria and it has also added  value of the GDP of the country. When you make good beats as its usually called among the young or upcoming starts you tend to get more clients and then charge better money for the job you do.

You can enter into this business by carrying out the following steps

1.       Get an apartment or an Office:  You can comfortably run your studio business from your home by converting one of your rooms into a studio. A lot of young producers start up by doing this which will reduce cost of paying for a rented apartment. 
However, if you have the available resources to get a rented apartment, nothing still stops you from doing that as long as you can work hard to recover the money spent in getting that apartment.  Now that that is said we can move to the next step.

2.       Buying the equipment: Get the necessary equipment you need to start your sound production like a computer, Mixer, high quality bass production speakers, a piano and buy the software for sound production like Fruity loops, a microphone. Enclose the perimeter of the studio with sound proof doors and make it air tight for a better sound system. 


You can get an Air conditioner, a generator set if you have the financial ability to do that, but due to the instability of electricity in the country a generator set is highly recommended.  Have a good painting work done to suit your style of the studio.

3.       Create Publicity: Create fliers and do a publicity to create awareness about your new studio. Get your friends to tell their friends and then create a social media awareness also like creating a facebook page and a twitter page and start publishing little skits about your productions.  You can also have your jobs posted on sound cloud as well. You can have a price slash for the first 10 clients that you work with as a new start up.

4.       Employ at least a staff:  In the long run you can employ a personal assistant that can help you out with booking sessions for your clients and issuing out receipts of payments for any job done. This won’t cost you too much considering the high clientele base you have already discovered over the time. So getting a personal assistant will just be the best way to get things organised in the studio.

Conclusion: you can achieve this if you have passion to deliver excellent sound production to your clients. Since music always evolves, you will need to always pay attention to the current trending sounds of the moment and know how to craft new beats for your clients. You can also get professional advice from those that are already in the business and making a living out of it. I really hope this was helpful to you.