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30th November 2009
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| Gear interested Join Date: Jul 2008
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Thread Starter | Soundalike Productions Hello. What rate should I charge a Production Company in order to supply them with Soundalike Productions ? Thanks. |
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30th November 2009
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| Lives for gear  | as much as you can, I suppose... |
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| get asked to do this quite a lot. I treat it the same as original composition PLUs charge a fee to examine the original and work out "what was done". I can't think of a time when I did a single track for less than £2k. If it's for advertising significantly more. If they want ownership - even more. But yes - depends on the music and the client. We did a big band sound "fer real" to sound Sinatraesque - that was mid 5 figures PLUS costs. Big project. |
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30th December 2009
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I can totally understand the Sinatra thing. I've actually been hired to do Sinatra sound-alikes before and tried to do it with MIDI... The results were... lets say... less than stelar  For normal rock/pop songs, I usually charge around 500-600 dollars + the cost of any session musicians I may need. I generally pay the talent 100-200 bucks. I generally only need them for instruments that I can't play that can't be pulled off with MIDI. Since I play gtr, piano, drums ... I usually only hire out banjo, fiddle, accordian ect. Oh... and I have to hire a singer pretty much every time. So in summery... 1000 bux on the high end... 500 on the low end. To put this in context, the songs I'm usually doing are for ads and toys so I rarely have to do more than 1 minute of audio.
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30th December 2009
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Thread Starter | Sound-a-like Productions Thanks for the information and have a Happy New Year. |
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