this whole thread makes me laugh very, very hard Eastlake Room Westlake or Possibly Genelec 7.1 Monitoring SSL XL9000K 72 channel with Total Recall 48 tracks of 2" Studer 48 tracks of some sort of DAW (probably Pro Stools as its industry standard ) 48 tracks of Otari Radar Apogee ADC's Some decent Valve Mic Pre's SOme Decent dynamics A couple of Bits of Focusrite Red (Screw the platinum range ) Lexicon 980L TC M5000 Mainframe Some Decent Mics A Model 290 97 key Bosendorfer A T3 line with plenty of Quality codecs for doing FSOL style live broadcasts Bostaph's Drumkit Other good quality Backline (Ampeg, fender, Marshall etc) Oh yeah, and for entertainmnt, Monopoly, Operation, Domino's and a Kite. It would need to be isolated so a residential area a'la Ridge farm would be in order. erm....probably plenty of other stuff Whaddaya say? 30 per hour for local bands?