Recording

Recording costs vary from project to project. There are two parts to the recording rate: the studio time (ie the time artists are physically in the building), as well the engineers time. The studio is available in full-day (8 hour) or half-day (4 hour) sessions, fixed at $500 and $300 respectively. Engineer’s rates follow a similar structure (which may also include planning, pre-production and setup, as well as the session time ).

***We offer a 20% discount for self-funded local artists making original music***

(We have and will always provide this to do what we can to help indie artists!)

Our engineers are experienced and can offer a range of solutions to suit your recording needs at any budget. Please contact us for more details and to discuss your specific requirements.

Dry Hire

The room is available for a range of activities from pre-production, large scale rehearsals and the occasional live event. Rates vary depending on the level of involvement of WTS personnel, but we still offer the same reduced rate for self-funded local artists. Please contact us for details. Outside engineers are most welcome, just let us know so we can make sure all personnel are up to speed with our setup.

Production

If you require your recording engineer to work in a production role (anything from project management to working out arrangements, coming up with parts, booking session musicians or otherwise directing the creative vision) please discuss this with your engineer early in the process. Yes, in some circumstances we can play instruments on your records too! Again, it is important to discuss this ahead of any recording sessions.

Mixing

Rates tend to vary from project to project. For example, a project tracked live with minimal editing will cost much less than something that is multi-tracked with 100+ tracks and lots of editing! It all depends on the time taken, amount of time the artist wishes to spend in the studio and number of mix revisions. Keep in mind that we do like to be generous and more often than not do some work “in-kind” (especially if you are nice to us!), so please feel free to discuss how you want to approach mixing your project with your chosen engineer prior to the session.

Mastering

Mastering rates - also variable, anywhere from $75 - 150 per song depending on the number and length of songs, genre, required formats etc. All of our engineers are mastering, if you have a specific engineer in mind feel free to reach out directly to them here.

If you have questions about what mastering involves and some of the lingo involved please reach out, we’re happy to help guide you through the process! From WAVS to LUFS to ISRC to DDP we’ll make it easy and cool.

Education/Workshops

Our engineers are also experienced educators, so we offer everything from 1 on 1 mixing lessons to full scale large group recording-mixing-production workshops. All of our engineers are musicians and well versed in music theory if you want to know more about playing or the nuts and bolts of things.