Though Peterson said the boom in home recording studios saturates the market and makes it harder for quality bands to stand out, Lin insisted the trend helps the development of music.

Though Peterson said the boom in home recording studios saturates the market and makes it harder for quality bands to stand out, Lin insisted the trend helps the development of music.

“I love the journey of producing and songwriting,” he says. After studying at the Harris Institute in Toronto and then working in a recording studio, he opened his own home studio in 2004.

“In the Toronto studio industry, there’s a mid-range price point of between $400 and $700 a day that almost didn’t exist for decades. There were big $1,000-a-day studios and smaller $400-a ...