Just wondering what people on here charge for mixing/mastering. After playing with my own bands songs for a few days now and getting very sick of them, I'm considering sending them out to be mixed if it's possible...(affordable)
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I charge $350 per 8 hour day. Mixing can take anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks depending on what needs to be done. Things like drum editing can eat up a bunch of time.
Where I used to live, the cheapest recording studio charged £13 an hour or £110 for a day (10am-5pm) - and they are pretty poor quality recordings:
The first song HERE is the last thing I recorded there - we did 4 songs in a day, so it was all pretty much one take stuff.
The next studio up costs £180 a day (10am-5:30pm), they've got some nice equipment and live off the fact that Extreme Noise Terror once recorded there, but they're useless engineers, and they have the worst sounding drum room I've ever heard:
THIS is what their stuff sounds like - not too bad, but that's the result of 3 days recording before the studio recorded over the masters, then 6 days after that - and no way is that £1000 worth of recording.
And that's why I started learning how to record stuff myself.
I don't know anywhere that will mix/master other people's work though, so I've got no idea what kind of price they'd charge.
Steve
The first song HERE is the last thing I recorded there - we did 4 songs in a day, so it was all pretty much one take stuff.
The next studio up costs £180 a day (10am-5:30pm), they've got some nice equipment and live off the fact that Extreme Noise Terror once recorded there, but they're useless engineers, and they have the worst sounding drum room I've ever heard:
THIS is what their stuff sounds like - not too bad, but that's the result of 3 days recording before the studio recorded over the masters, then 6 days after that - and no way is that £1000 worth of recording.
And that's why I started learning how to record stuff myself.
I don't know anywhere that will mix/master other people's work though, so I've got no idea what kind of price they'd charge.
Steve
Lee_B
Readin' me posts are ya?
Suicide_As_Alibi said:
Is that Mark Harward's place near Ipswich? If so, then I truly sympathise...
Razorjack
Bass Behemoth
I charge on a case-by-case basis, it's all dependant on the status of the band and their financial situation. If I have a poor unsigned band then they'll pay less than a signed band (I'm not talking about "in some dudes back bedroom records" they don't count as labels)
musickey said:
Thanks man, the Cephalic sessions are always super fun!
Never found out anything else about the break in. I have benn concentrating on replacing the stolen gear with bigger and better. I still need a LDC for some vocals and the occasional room mic, thinking about a MA-200. And I'm looking for a big step up in the monitor world, possably ADAM S3As.
Anyways, sorry to get off topic butcher.
No apology neccessary dave. Cephalic and Summon albums (only ons I've heard by you) sound fucking great. Love your work.
Do you by any xchance remember what setup you use to record and mix Cephalics and Summons vocals? I kind of want to get a similar to Summons vocal sound for my singers stuff.
Do you by any xchance remember what setup you use to record and mix Cephalics and Summons vocals? I kind of want to get a similar to Summons vocal sound for my singers stuff.
unsilpauly
Member
im currently getting $150.00-$200.00 for an eight hour day depending on the band(financial situation, label, how much work is involved, if its a bunch of days, etc.). i am pretty comfortable with that fee and the bands seem to think its extremely fair. my studio is in my house though. if it werent i would definetly have to charge more. ive tried pricing every which way and a solid day rate is good to go. then have a back up hourly rate in case its not a full day thing.
Lee_B said:
Nah, this is just on the edge of Norwich in an old vicarage. To be fair to them they're more in tune with indie stuff than metal, though I've just found out they've yet again 'lost' a bunch of masters for a band I know. Once is fair enough, these things can happen, but this is the third time in the last year just with bands I know - how unprofessional is that?
Steve
madbutcher said:
Summon vocal chain was AKG 414 > RNC > MOTU 896. The RNCs fucking rule for vocals, I don't use them for much else.
Cephalic was similar but we used a 58 for some of Lenard's stuff. Last time Len was in the studio we tried some stuff with a Sennheiser e602 through a SCA "Neve" Module and it sounded pretty killer.
I currently charge $250AU per 8 hour day to mix
pending on the project , if recorded decently will take me a day to mix a song , if poorly recorded and needing heaps of editing probably 2 days
my credits etc : www.myspace.com/rolandlim
pending on the project , if recorded decently will take me a day to mix a song , if poorly recorded and needing heaps of editing probably 2 days
my credits etc : www.myspace.com/rolandlim
