RATES

Recording

In general, our standard day rate for recording starts at $1000 per day (up to 8 hours studio time for artists)/$600 for a half-day (up to 4 hours), which includes full use of the studio and all in-house gear plus a recording engineer.

Please contact us for more details and to discuss your specific requirements.

We offer a 20% discounted rate for self-funded local artists making original music, which starts at $800 per day/$450 half day!

For larger projects and full albums requiring a degree of project management (including planning, pre-production, in session production, WTS engineers playing instruments, artist liaison and session musician booking etc) we can provide you with an estimate of costs based on 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 our level of involvement, but we still offer the same reduced rate for self-funded local artists. Please contact us for details. Outside engineers are most welcome too, just let us know so we can make sure all personnel are up to speed with our setup.

Mixing

Rates tend to vary from project to project. For example, a project tracked live with minimal edits/comping will cost much less than something that is multi-tracked with 50 overdubs 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 $50 - 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 1-1 mixing workshops to full scale large group recording 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.