naaah. we don't list the gear anymore on the website..... never put the goods and the address in the same place.
we don't list our rates either.
most people call or email us and we work together to come up with a price we can both live with... sliding scale..
plus every job is different.... different job, diff price...
if you are an engineer or you want to bring your own engineer we do rent the studio by itself.
most people around these parts want to work with our engineer/producer Bill Palmer, we also have access to a few other local engineers.
each engineer has a different rate depending on the job too.
it all gets very complicated. one band knows all their songs and can come in and bang 'em out, wants it recorded right so they come to us, some want us to mix and or master also, some want to take the tracks to another mixer... some customers have a song and a voice and need us to arrange the songs and hire musicians too so we do that... some customers have a beat and a title, we help them flesh out the song and they come up with lyrics on the spot and experiment with different vocals... or some combination of the above... some people want a 3 song demo some want to work on a 12 track album... and everyone has different budgets they can work within...
it just seems kind of dumb to commit to a price.
what do you got in your budget?
we can make a record for 300 bucks, 3000 bucks and 30,000 bucks, they will all be the best record we can make for that price, yet they will each be vastly different records based on the time you invest in the project.
besides we work in New Mexico which for the previous 20 years has been competing with Louisiana and Mississippi for poorest state in the union, we don't want a big set in stone price tag scaring off the local talent, yet in Santa fe you get a wide variety of incomes from movie stars and people who have their 3rd or 5th house here to families who have lived here for 300 years and their gross annual income is in the 11 to 30 grAnd a year range and everything in between, we get a lot of transients too, on two occasions I have discovered a very talented busker performing for change on the street that we brought back and recorded 2 or 3 tracks for free and burned them a cd explaining if they go down to kinkos or get it copied they can sell the cd too for fun and profit.
we love music and we love the creation process and we love artists that be real but we do like to get paid, especially now that we have a new loan for the construction to take care of.... a general idea:
100 bucks / for an hour, 300 minimum session.
if you are independent and have a budget 750 for an 8-12 hour day with our engineer.
500 for an 8-12 hour day in our studio and you provide the engineer.
If your a local band and we are not fully booked we might crank up th old pedal generator for 350-500 for a 6 or 8 hour session.
if it is a major or mini major with a budget we can work out reasonable block outs that include the lounge sleeping area / laundry / and kitchen, maid or chef, and either an engineer or assistant engineer or a tape op or pro tools op by the week or month
other options available to suit most budgets.
