RATES

Recording at Wizard Tone

From January 1st 2025, our standard rate for recording is $1000 per day/$550 minimum for up to half a day (4 hours), which includes full use of the studio and all in-house gear plus a recording engineer. Hourly rates are possible over the minimum charge where possible with scheduling.

We offer a 30% discounted rate for self-funded local artists making original music, which is $700 per day/$400 half day.

If you have a larger project in mind (multiple days, full albums, multi-disc freeform jazz odyssey concept anthologies etc.) then please contact us to negotiate an overall rate!

Dry Hire

The room is available for a range of activities from pre-production, large scale rehearsals and the occasional live event. Rates vary depending on our level of involvement, but we still offer the same reduced rate for self-funded local artists. Please contact us for details. Outside engineers are most welcome too, just let us know so we can make sure all personnel are up to speed with our setup.

Mixing

Rates tend to vary from project to project. For example, a project tracked live with minimal edits/comping will cost much less than something that is multi-tracked with 50 overdubs and lots of editing! It all depends on the time taken, amount of time the artist wishes to spend in the studio and number of mix revisions. Keep in mind that we do like to be generous and more often than not do some work “in-kind” (especially if you are nice to us!), so please feel free to discuss how you want to approach mixing your project with your chosen engineer prior to the session.

Mastering

Mastering rates: usually $75/single track, $50/track for a double single or EP (2 - 5 songs), $40/track for an album (6+) songs. All of our engineers are doing mastering, if you have a specific engineer in mind feel free to reach out directly to them here.

If you have questions about what mastering involves and some of the lingo involved please reach out, we’re happy to help guide you through the process! From WAVS to LUFS to ISRC to DDP we’ll make it easy and cool.

Education/Workshops (from $75/hour)

Our engineers are also experienced educators, so we offer everything from 1-1 mixing workshops to full scale large group recording workshops. All of our engineers are musicians and well versed in music theory if you want to know more about playing or the nuts and bolts of things.