Sound recording studio

Hi and welcome to our "sound recording studio" page Why do you need a recording studio? Nothing less nothing more than to record , produce and develop your songs and music into quality master tracks,

The biggest advantage is that you can follow the whole recording process of mix-mastering from start to finish. But only if you want to do so.

There you can give suggestions when you think it's necessary, but don't try to annoy the people who are trying to do their job. For songwriters with a good voice , it's also a solution to produce demo. You safe the cost of hiring a vocalist.

If you're not that good in singing, you can to hire a singer. Ofcourse, again for extra cost.

Before jumping into the recording studio!

Second, memorised have your songs as good as it gets. This can also safe you time and money. Also, this will allow you to sing with more feeling. Can be very important for the end result and quality of your recordings.

In a sound recording studio your songs will be mixed and mastered.

What is Mastering?

The mastering will give your songs that professional sound ( broadcasting) and make sure your entire CD has a consisting sound level and quality. A mastered song will sound much clearer and louder than an un mastered.

So, the mastering is a difficult and important work, that not can be done by people who are just beginners, and often overlook by some. This is indeed a secure job, and will better be done by a professional who knows what he's(or she) is doing.

Some people(artist) ruining weeks of hard work by trying to do the mastering their self.( thinking this can safe them the money)

Wrong!

If you haven't back up your songs on a hard disk of the computer( or some where else) you can start all over again from zero.

If you want to do some experimenting with mastering the demo your self. Make a copy of your recorded songs first. It can safe you a lot of time and worries!

THe job of the Mastering engeneer!

The mastering is the final step in the recording process. After this process,your songs can be broacast on the radio, on the web and every place you want to.

What a recording will cost you?

The cost of hiring a sound recording studio is is greatly depending of the facilities that you wish to use. There are expensive studios and there are cheaper and studios between those.

Of course, cheap and expensive are relative.

If you are just a starting songwriter then I suppose you start with "the" most expensive sound recording studio on the planet. You can always try out "abbey road" ( London sound recording studio) later".

I try to give you an idea of the prices were you have to think about just starting from..

*The sound studio will cost you about $30 per hour. *The musicians ,drums, guitars...are working per session and a session is about 3 hours. Cost of a session starting from $200 for one instrument.

*Mix and mastering one day per song : $240.

So lets do some calculating. If you want a E-guitar, bass, drums, acoustic guitar, synthesizer and you take the vocals for your account.

We'll do the calculating for one demo, that's three songs. Now, a good professional musician can do three songs in one session. You're lucky, it fits perfect.

To make it easy, we take the same instruments for all three songs. If you wish to cut in the budget, take for the other songs one or two instruments lesser. But we want to have a fantastic demo, do we , and stick with all the instruments.

Five instruments who do all the three songs in one session. 5 times $200 = $1000 3 songs mixing and mastering = $730 And when you do the singing yourself (hopefully you did enough rehearsal and have memorized your songs, this saves time). That's another $200 (same time as the professional musician).

All together, when you use a the sound recording studio to make a demo recording, you may count you about $2000.

OK, this is not cheap..

And I really want to emphasize that this is a low price for a (good) recording studio. If you think about the stars who are spending tens of thousands of dollars for one song only.

They can effort it, of course, while you're just starting.

But what the heck. The competition has only begun now you've recorded your best songs.

I believe this is a reasonable price. Your songs have a fantastic broadcasting sound.

You may be grateful to the musicians and the music producer. Thanks to them (and your money) you can now be proud on your songs and send them to any publisher, record company or even a radio station.

There are literally thousands of these sound studios all over the world (maybe even 10.000's ).I'm sure there's one in your neighbourhood too.

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