This book covers all aspects of starting and running a professional sound recording studio, from smaller project-style facilities to million dollar majors. For the first time, here is one guide that combines serious business planning, studio design, and audio engineering as interconnected aspects of starting and running a studio. Numerous practical examples and applications throw light on the daily workings of a recording studio, including recording, marketing, sales, employees, and taxes. Readers with no business or sound recording experience will find what they need to start and succeed in creating a sound recording studio.