My rates are as follows
$200 per song tracking to mixdown
$100 per song tracking only
10 songs $1500
I will mix your sessions for $30/hr (contact me for format)
Reamping $30/hr
I require half at the begining of the session and the final half at completion
I accept cash, money orders, payal.

All bands, please read all of this.
At the start of your session I will need either an IDE (EIDE) or USB or Firewire HARD DRIVE.
This will hold all of your session data, mixes, remixes etc.
They can be had for as little as a hundred dollars. This ensures your recordings are safe and you get to walk out with it. In the event you need a remix, want to go to another producer, studio etc. you have everything ready to go.
I simply don't have the storage capacity to keep a hundred albums worth of data on my rig.
Call me if you need help and I will walk you through it.
Please do not bring me some old windows 95 platter you snagged out of grandma's PC, if your music is valuable to you, it's worth a new drive.
Have your instruments set up.
This means new heads , tuned kit, intact cymbals.
INTONATE your guitars and basses. A single song may have 16 or more guitar tracks, little tuning indiscrepancies turn into big nightmares when you stack them up.
IMPORTANT!
Do not bring friends, girlfriends, mothers, wives, granma, aunt Rose or anybody not detrimental to the session with you.
Some crackhead casing my house or going through my wive's panty drawer does not make me concentrate on your music.
I'm sure they are great people but we are here to make a great recording, we can have an ice cream social when the CD is done.
Look at it this way, if you don't take them to work, don't bring them to ALLCAPS.
No one under 17 is allowed in my house at all without advanced notice and a parent. Sorry, no exceptions.
Also, no alcohol or drugs period, bringing narotics into my house will get your ass kicked and the police called. I am not kidding. Please respect my home.
I'm all for having a good time when and where appropriate. Tracking a drunk person doing 800 takes of a ten second measure of music because he can't hear that he's screwing it up throws me into a homicidal rage, I don't want to be in a homicidal rage, I'm a swell guy.
Pre-production (what is it, how do we do it)
Please write your songs before you come to the studio, artistic changes happen over the course of every session, it's a beautiful part of the process. That's great, but you should have your songs 99% ready to go from day one.
Is the song too long?
Does that fourth verse really add anything to the song?
You are making art that will carry on after you and after your band are long gone, what mark do you want to leave?
What are we saying to the world?
Just because we could have 400 tracks in a song doesn't mean we should, don't let technology get in the way of emotion. Some of the greatest albums ever made were commited live to two track, keep that in mind. The emotional root of the song and getting that across is the whole point, once you detract from that you might as well be recording a tidy-bowl jingle.
Have fun and relax, we aren't curing cancer we are making art!
I look forward to working with you!

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