A recording studio website artists can book a session from
Artists choosing a studio look at the rooms, scan the gear list for the things they care about, check the rate and who'll engineer, then want a date. A recording studio website should make each of those a short, honest page. Anticode's booking calendar suits a single room's sessions well; long lock-outs and multi-room projects are better taken as enquiries.
Rooms first, with real dimensions
Every room deserves its own page: the live room's size and ceiling height, the acoustic character (live, dead, variable), isolation booths and their sightlines, the control room, and whether there's natural light. Photograph each room from the performer's position as well as the console. A band of five needs to know whether a drum kit, two amps and a vocalist can track together with separation; a singer-songwriter wants to know if the piano is tuned regularly and what make it is.
Rehearsal studios have a different checklist: room sizes by band size, the backline in each room (drum kit, amp heads, cabs, PA), what's for hire, how loud is too loud, parking for loading, and whether rooms are available late. Put a simple comparison table on the rooms page so a band can pick the right room in seconds.
A gear list that engineers trust
Gear lists are read closely by people who know what they're looking for. Organise them by function (console and converters, monitoring, microphones, preamps, outboard compression and EQ, instruments and amps, software and plug-ins) and list exact models and quantities. Remove anything broken or sold. A list that promises a vintage compressor the engineer then admits is out for repair loses the next booking.
A CMS collection called gear makes this easy to keep tidy: fields for category, make, model, quantity and a note. Edit it from the dashboard when something changes, and the gear page updates without a rebuild. Generic generated studio sites tend to show a glowing console and words like "state of the art". The list itself is the sales pitch.
Rates and what they include
- Hourly and day rates
- With and without an engineer, and the minimum booking.
- Lock-outs
- Several days with the room yours, gear left set up overnight.
- Mixing and mastering
- Per song or per project, number of revisions, delivery formats.
- Rehearsal
- Per hour by room, block discounts, backline hire.
- Extras
- Session musicians, instrument hire, piano tuning, overtime.
State whether rates include tax, what the deposit is and when it's payable, and the cancellation terms. Artists on tight budgets plan around these numbers, and hidden extras are the most common complaint about studios.
Booking sessions by the slot
Anticode's booking calendar takes a service, a day and a time, and the artist's name, phone and email. Each slot goes to one booking per service, which is exactly how one room works: set up "Live room session" or "Rehearsal, room B" as services and each time can only be taken once. Dates more than 120 days ahead are refused, and nothing syncs with your own calendar, so check new bookings against it.
The calendar offers six fixed start times a day (Mondays skipped), not lengths, so it's best for sessions of a standard length or for a first booking that you then extend by phone. Take multi-day lock-outs, album projects and mixing work through a custom form instead: artist name, genre, number of songs, who's playing, dates, engineer wanted, and reference tracks as links. You reply with a quote. The calendar takes no deposits, so send a payment link from Stripe Payment Links or PayPal to secure the dates.
Engineers and credits
Give each engineer and producer a profile: what they specialise in, the instruments they play, the records they've worked on. Keep credits in their own CMS collection (artist, release, year, role, label if any) so each one can have a page and the list grows with every release. Music players such as Spotify, Bandcamp or SoundCloud can't be embedded on a published Anticode page, so link each credit to the release on the artist's chosen platform.
What to pair Anticode with
- A studio scheduling tool if you run several rooms with staff rotas and variable-length bookings.
- A file transfer service for stems and mixes, since forms don't take uploads.
- Your payment provider for deposits and balances, through payment links.
- Streaming platforms for audio, linked rather than embedded.
Questions people ask
Can artists book studio time online?
Yes, as slots on Anticode's booking calendar, one booking per slot for each room or service. Longer projects work better as an enquiry.
Can I play audio samples on the site?
Embedded players aren't allowed on published pages, so link to tracks on Spotify, Bandcamp or SoundCloud.
Can I take a deposit for a session?
Not in the booking itself. Send a payment link from your own provider once the session is confirmed.