Rates: 

Recording Engineer *$30/hour

Recording Engineer is an hourly rate for overseeing many technical and aesthetic aspects of a recording session. The recording engineer:

• Is responsible for overall sound of all recorded tracks.
  
• Ensures the mixing engineer has good material to work with and the final product satisfies the artists & producers.
  
• Records each instrument and part separately.
  
• Edits and combines audio files with top and end fades, track color and gain staging.

Mixing Engineer *$45/hour

Mixing Engineer is an hourly rate for mixing projects that are sent to us. The mixing engineer combines all of the different sonic elements of a recorded piece of music into a final version, balancing the distinct parts to achieve a desired effect by: 

• Blending, balancing and timber of the various parts of a multitrack recording into a standard stereo track.
• Creating mixes that enhance the emotional or dramatic clarity of a recording.
• Ensuring proper gain staging of the session.
• Enhancing the sonic character of each track with the aid of processors such as EQ & compression, and adding effects like delay & reverb.
• Printing & delivering the final recording mix, "mixdown", to the client.

Mastering Engineer per Song *$50/hour

Mixing Engineer is a per song rate. The mastering engineer uses technical expertise and superb ears to make the final adjustments to a piece of recorded music before it's released, heightening its impact and ensuring that it will translate well to the variety of playback systems in use today. The mastering engineer will: 

• Ensure dynamic and spectral balance is sculpted and polished.
• Ensure a project is sonically cohesive, impactful, and that it will play well in any format and through any medium: as digital mp3, CD, or internet stream as well as through earbuds and laptop speakers. 
• Highten audio through use of compression, equalization and other tools to make the recording sound more vibrant, visceral and musical.
• Remove tongue clicks, vocal hiss and resolve serious audio problems. 

What to expect: 

Upon acceptance of a project or session, 50% non refundable retainer due before project begins and balance due prior to receipt of final product.