HOURS, WORK DURATION, START TIMES:

Mon-Fri 8AM-9PM
Saturday - 9AM-5:00PM

Working Duration Per Day: Approximately 8 working hours per day.   

Available Start Times:

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

6:00 PM (n/a on Saturdays)

PRICING:

Weekday Studio Time: $55/hr

Saturday Studio Time: $70/hr

Mixing (Light): $150-$250/song

Mixing (Standard): $320/song

Mixing (Dense): $370/song

Producer Rate: $420/song

Mastering: $75/song

Mason’s Session Player Rate: $25/instrument (N/A if Mason is the Producer)

STEMS: $40/song

Cabin Overnight Stay: 1-2 nights - $120

Cabin Overnight Stay: 3+ nights - $80/night

BOOKING:

+ $50 per day non-refundable and non-transferable downpayment is required to secure studio time. Dates will not be held until downpayment is received.

+ The downpayment becomes credit for each day booked and will be drawn down as the project goes on.  

+ When booking a session, clients must choose from a start time (see above) and select a date.

ACCEPTED FORMS OF PAYMENT:

+ Venmo, PayPal (friends and family payment only), Cashapp, USD

+ IMPORTANT - If paying via PayPal, please ensure that you select “friends and family payment” to avoid Sound Machine incurring a fee. If you pay as a    “goods and services” payment, you will be billed for the fee as PayPal retains the fee even if a refund is initiated.

PAYMENT PROCEEDURES:

+ The Producer Rate Invoice is due in full before pre-production begins.

+ The Mixing Invoice is due before the first round of mixes are delivered.

+ Studio Time Invoices are due upon receipt.

+ Deliverables (i.e. songs, files, tracks) will not be released to client unless the balance is paid.

+ Invoices are due upon receipt. A $40 fee will be added to the total if the payment is not received within one week of the invoice going out.

   HOURLY BILLING

+ The clock starts at the session start time. For example, if the session is booked for 1:00 PM, the clock starts at 1:00 PM even if the client is late.

+ Clients must choose a start time at the time they book a session.

+ The clock stops during meal breaks.

+ Billing is in 5 minute increments.

SESSION PLAYERS AND PAYMENT PROCEDURES:

+ All Sound Machine Studio session players have either PayPal or Venmo. If you will be hiring a session player, please sign up for a PayPal or Venmo account to make payments easy. Cash is also acceptable.

+ Session players should be paid on the day they record for the project and before they leave the studio.

FILE DELIVERY

+ Client will receive a link to a Dropbox folder in which all files will be stored for the duration of the project.

+ Clients are expected to download the files to their personal computer/phone/iPad. Once the project is a wrap the files will be removed from Dropbox.

+ A $10 fee will be billed to client if a re-upload is necessary after project has wrapped.

ARCHIVING

+ Clients are highly encouraged to bring a storage device such as a hard drive or flash drive to every session in order to backup the Pro Tools sessions (and    associated audio files).

+ Sound Machine Studio and/or Mason Shirley will not be held liable for data loss for any reason.

OVERNIGHT STAY

+ Cabin max capacity is 5.

+ No smoking inside.

+ No illegal drugs.

+ No pets (must keep facility free of allergens). Outdoor pets are also prohibited at this time.

MISC. GUIDELINES

+ Clients are welcome to bring videographers, photographers, etc. to the session.

+ Clients are welcome to drink alcoholic beverages during the session.

+ Smoking outside is okay, just discard cigarette butts in the dispenser.

+ Vaping indoors is fine.

+ We will refuse to work on a song if the lyrics are degrading to humanity, morally deprived, promote the occult, promote violence, or contain excessive explicit/degrading language.

RELEASE GUIDELINES

+ Clients are kindly asked to release only the masters to the public.

+ Clients are encouraged to avoid manipulating the masters when syncing audio recorded at Sound Machine Studio to a visual medium such as a music video, lyric video, etc. This would include adjusting the volume, eq’ing the track, etc.

+ Clients are kindly asked to properly credit all personnel involved in making a project. This includes liner notes on physical CD’s, tapes, and vinyl records as well as production notes on digital distribution (where possible).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

+ All recordings/mixes/demos made at Sound Machine Studio are owned by the Client.

+ Unless otherwise agreed to, all work done by Mason Shirley is “work for hire”.