Studio time should not need a discovery call to price. At AM:PM Studio in Glasgow a recording session is £40 for an hour, £100 for three hours, or £150 for five, and every booking includes an engineer who handles recording and technical setup while you perform. Mixing starts from £100 and mastering from £50 as send-in services.
What the engineer changes
Rental-only rooms look cheaper until you spend your session troubleshooting a signal chain. With an engineer included, your hour is spent recording takes, not learning a console. If you are an engineer yourself, hourly rental without one is £30.
Session, mix, master: what each stage is
- Recording: capturing the takes, comped and organised, in a sound-treated room.
- Mixing: balancing those takes into one polished track, from stems, with unlimited revisions.
- Mastering: the final loudness and format pass, 72 hour turnaround, one revision round included.
How to budget a single
A vocalist recording over a finished beat typically gets a single tracked in a three hour session. Add the mix and master and the whole record is done for under £300, released the same month. Bring the beat, the lyrics, and water. Everything else is in the room.
The takeaway
£40 an hour with an engineer included is the whole answer. If you can perform it, a finished, released record is a few sessions away, and the price is on the page, not behind a call.
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By Dxims, AM:PM Media.
