Questions to ask before booking a music studio

• Which room is this, and is it for recording or rehearsal?
• Is the rate hourly or per song, and what is the minimum?
• Does it include an engineer?
• What files do we leave with, and when?
• Are mix revisions included?
• What costs extra: overtime, session players, mastering, stems?
• Is tax included?
• What is the cancellation rule if we move the date?
• Is there a current partner offer, and when does it expire?
• Is this a confirmed hold, or only an enquiry?

You do not need to call the studio directly to ask these. Send them with the StudioKhoj form or on WhatsApp. We will not describe a conversation as a confirmed booking until both sides have agreed.

What StudioKhoj will and will not invent

A city page on StudioKhoj lists named rooms that came from a public source. If a city has no named studio, the page stays out of Google rather than being filled with a generic recording-studio row. A profile does not gain a drum kit, a vocal booth, a Dolby room, or a street pin because those things are common. They appear only when that studio’s own site or another public source said so.

Prices work the same way. StudioKhoj does not publish a national hourly rate, a city average, or a starting-from figure made up to rank for a price search. If a studio printed a number on its own site, the profile may mention that it was seen, and it will say the figure was not reconfirmed as a partner rate. The number you can book against is the one in the reply to your enquiry.

The phone and WhatsApp button on every page reach StudioKhoj on +91 79865 77067. They are not a direct studio booking line. The studio’s own number is not printed. Sending the short form — artist name, date, and your phone — opens a WhatsApp draft. You still tap Send. A reply is not a hold until you accept the terms.

How to use the city pages

Ask where the room is, in the area the profile already names, and whether the pin on the page is confirmed. Ask what the price includes and what is extra. Ask the hours only if the profile did not already print them. Ask whether an engineer is in the room. Ask what happens if you are late or you cancel.

Do not ask the site for a star rating, a top 10 list, or another artist’s private rate. Those are not stored. Do not ask for the studio’s personal phone. Enquiries stay on the StudioKhoj number so the artist is not handed a number the directory was not allowed to publish.

Write the answers you get next to the profile, including the date of the reply. A price in a chat is for that job and that date. It does not become the public rate for the next person unless StudioKhoj has marked a partner offer on the offers page.

• Area, what the price includes, engineer or not, and cancellation.
• Skip ratings, top-ten lists, and the studio’s private number.
• Keep the reply. It is not a public rate for everyone else.

Start with the city you will actually travel to. Recording studios in Mumbai, recording studios in Delhi, recording studios in Bengaluru, recording studios in Hyderabad, recording studios in Chennai, recording studios in Kolkata, recording studios in Pune, and recording studios in Ahmedabad are the larger lists. In the north, recording studios in Chandigarh, recording studios in Mohali, recording studios in Panchkula, and recording studios in Zirakpur sit next to each other because artists cross the Tricity in one session. Punjab hubs such as Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jalandhar, and Patiala are separate pages, not folded into Chandigarh.

Open the studio by name after the city page. The profile repeats the area that is already on file, the services that were published, and a plain answer on price and hours: rates are shared on enquiry, and hours are confirmed when you enquire unless a public source already printed them. Compare every other studio linked from that city, not a short sample. Then send one enquiry with the date, the headcount, and whether you need a vocal hour, a song, or a band rehearsal.