START: Zach Nieman, CEO & Founder, Snap Studio: “Unleash Your Studio - The Ultimate Portable Vocal Booth"

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It started with a dream. “Guys, let’s make it to the GRAMMYs.” 18 months later, he did it.

Zach Nieman’s GRAMMY-Nominated production “Cali Coast (Psionics Remix)” by Soul Pacific led him to walk the red carpet and planted the seeds for his first startup.

It all began when he was recording music at home. The gear was right. The room wasn't.

Zach had the interface, the cables, the mics, and the chops to lay down a real take. He hit record and realized: “It sounded like garbage.”

So he built a workaround: a frame with sound absorption blankets over it, enough to kill the reverb and get a usable signal he could mix in post. He told the guys “Let’s make this album so good that we get to the GRAMMYs.” The songs they tracked inside it made that dream come true.
Then he put the booth away for over a year. It took fellow GRAMMY Nominated producer Josh Williams asking “whatever happened with that booth?” to get Zach to pull it back out and think product instead of prototype.

Snap Studio is the commercialized product of that vision: a 360-degree acoustic isolation shield trusted by thousands of artists, singers, and voice actors worldwide. The popular Standard and XL models break down in minutes and fit into a duffel bag, making them perfect for storage or travel.

Get Rolling Stone's #1 recommended portable recording booth here: www.snapstudio.com

🎙️ Zach Nieman, CEO & Founder, Snap Studio on Fondo START

01:08 Why San Francisco became the Hollywood of startups

02:08 The thing that decides whether a take is usable, and it isn't the gear

02:50 The recording that came back unusable

03:28 From a blanket-and-frame prototype to the Grammy red carpet

03:38 The question from a friend that restarted the whole project

03:58 Launching during COVID, when nobody could get to a studio

05:53 What he's building now

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