Studio Raine Take the seat

Raine Engineers

For Bryan, by invitation

Bryan, your seat at Studio Raine

Run Mixed by Isolation out of our room. You set your prices. We put first on Google and send you the sessions. The room is in The Music Building, in Midtown Manhattan.

1
Seat open
20
Hours a week
$800
A month
Take the seat InstagramSee the room first
The room: a windowed live room with a drum riser, amplifiers and a keyboard, in The Music Building

Bryan, your mixes are worth more than an hourly studio wage

How it works

  1. 01

    Someone searches

    An artist in New York needs a studio and types it into Google.

    Ranks first for recording, mixing and mastering searches in Midtown.
    You
    Nothing yet.

    Google's suggestions, November 11, 2026

  2. 02

    Studio Raine comes up first

    We work the listing on Google Maps until it sits above every other studio in Midtown. That is where the sessions come from.

    Runs the listing and the search work that ranks it: the site, photos, hours, replies to reviews.
    You
    Do the work that earns the reviews.

    The target: first in Midtown

  3. 03

    They book

    The enquiry becomes a session on your calendar.

    Answers the enquiry and puts the session on the room calendar.
    You
    Confirm the time.
    Google Maps

    An enquiry from Google

    A call, a message or a site visit.

    books it

    Date and length agreed with the client, at your rate.

    You

    On your calendar

    Inside your 20 hours.

  4. 04

    You run the session

    Your name goes on the work.

    Has the room open and the desk ready.
    You
    Record, mix or master.
    The live room, seen from the door

  5. 05

    The money splits

    You keep 70% of a session we sent and 85% of your own.

    Takes payment for the sessions we send and pays your share every Friday.
    You
    Take payment from your own clients and settle the house share every Friday.

    A $300 session we sent

    You $210$90

    A $300 session with your own client

    You $255$45

What the seat includes

The room
20 hours a week in a large windowed live room, booked on the room calendar a week ahead.
The desk
A Universal Audio Apollo Twin is on the desk now. A workstation desk and a vocal microphone go in during your first month.
Sessions from us
Every recording, mixing and mastering enquiry the listing brings in goes to you.
Your own clients
Bring them. Work here under your own name, at your own rates.

Who has worked in this building

  • Madonna
  • The Strokes
  • Billy Idol
  • Blondie
  • Interpol
  • Joey Ramone
  • Patti Smith
  • Cyndi Lauper
  • New York Dolls
  • Television
  • Moby
  • They Might Be Giants
  • Dev Hynes
  • Trey Anastasio
  • Warren Haynes
  • Lenny Kaye
  • David Johansen
  • Steve Stevens
  • Agnostic Front
  • Sick of It All
  • Lunachicks
  • The Fleshtones
  • The dB's
  • Kindness

Each rehearsed, recorded or kept a room at 584 8th Ave, as reported by the building, Rolling Stone, the New York Post and GQ.

In the building now
Marcus Garrick Miller, saxophonist in Jon Batiste's band, told Rolling Stone it is “a crucial place for practicing, rehearsing, and networking.”
Down the hall
Recording, mixing and production rooms, among them an engineer who worked for James Taylor and Mariah Carey, and what Rolling Stone counts as a dozen hip-hop production studios.
May 2026
Madonna and Bilt covered a month's rent for every musician with a room here.
The building
69 studios on 12 floors, open 24 hours a day since 1979. A private room rents for $1,000 to $2,500 a month by the building's own figures.

The seat is a start

Take the clients, the credits and the people you meet in the elevator, and get a room of your own. We want you to outgrow this one.

The market outside the door

4,400
searches a month in the US for “recording studios nyc”, from Google Ads data
69,988
independent artists, writers and performers filing as self-employed in the five boroughs, Census 2023
57.7M
riders a year at Times Sq-42 St, the busiest subway station in the city, MTA 2024
205,000
passengers a weekday at Port Authority, a block away, 2024

New York's music business supports nearly 60,000 jobs and $21 billion in output a year, by the city's own study.

What it costs, what you keep

$2,400

The first three months, paid up front. $800 a month after that.

Pay $2,400

Sessions we send you

70%Yours

Your own clients, in the room

85%Yours

Work you do anywhere else

100%Yours

20 hours a week is about 87 hours a month, so the room costs you $9.23 an hour. A shared room on the ninth floor lists at $45 an hour.

Midtown studios publish $40 to $105 an hour with an engineer included. At $75, 12 session hours a week with your own clients is $900. You keep $765. Over a month that is about $3,315, or $2,515 after the seat. Arithmetic on a rate you choose, not a forecast.

Pay it monthly

Pay the $2,400 in full, or pick a lender at checkout and pay it off in instalments. The lender makes the decision and shows you its terms before you confirm.

Klarna

Klarna

Monthly financing through Klarna issued by WebBank.

 Afterpay

Afterpay

Pay Monthly. Loans are subject to credit check and approval and are not available in all states.

Checkout by Stripe

The terms

Before you pay
See the room. Then one page, signed by both of us.
Minimum
Three months. Month to month after that.
Hours
20 a week, booked a week ahead. Two bands rehearse here in fixed weekly slots and your hours are booked around them.
The room is shared
We work from the room and are on site during your sessions.
House share
30% of sessions we send you. 15% of your own sessions in the room. Settled every Friday.
Your clients
You answer for them and for any damage they cause to the room or the gear in it.
Ending it
After the first three months either side can end it with 30 days' notice.

One seat, Bryan

You have first call on it. The payment link closes after one payment.

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