Rates guide

Fandango Recording prides on the commercial quality it delivers at an affordable price. The major top studios have large expenses due to numerous personnel and maintenance; here, without sacrificing anything related to quality, you pay just for the work done for you. It's hard to know what the final price of a project will be in the absence of proper details. The more info you provide, the more accurate our estimation/quote will be. A seven instruments band recording and mixing will take more time and will cost more than a voice over a beat.

As we know you are looking around to gather info, we decided to publish some general rates. Please feel free to call and discuss your project, or contact us and provide as many details as you can, like style, how many instruments, how many tracks for mixing, how many songs for mastering, the mastering format desired, and so on.

Recording, Voice-over and overdubbing rates

The hourly rate is 50 euros/hour. Rate includes engineer. Minim 2 hours block booking.
Recording on location rates

Recording on location: 700€/day for up to 8 hours, including transportation from and back to studio and set up. Every additional hour will be billed at 120€/hour.

Fandango Recording provides live recording only for classical, chamber music, choir and jazz. Recording is done at 24 bit resolution. Mixing and mastering are billed separate. If mixing is not required, a 150€ fee for file transfers will be applied. The prices apply to area covering Costa Brava up to Blanes, Barcelona, Girona, Figueres and Roses., within 100 km distance from San Antoni de Calonge. For all other locations please call or contact for a quote.
Mixing and editing rates

Voice over beat 100€ *with the customer beat
Up to 20 tracks 250 €
21 to 30 tracks 275 €
31 to 40 tracks 310 €
41 to 50 tracks 350 €
Over 50 tracks 75 € for each additional 10 tracks

The mixing includes editing: pitch correction, comping, drum enhancement / replacement, time editing.
Three free revisions are included. Additional revisions for 50€/hour of work.
Mastering rates

Mastering for Internet distribution: 60 €/song
Mastering for a full CD: 600 € for up to 12 songs/CD.
Each additional song over 12 on CD: 70 €
Mastering for vinyl: 70 € per song

Masters for internet formats requested at the same time with mastering for vinyl or CD will be charged only 20 € per song. However, if mastering for the same song is requested at a later date, full mastering rate applies.
For larger project- full albums only or equivalent - where the client works with us from the recording stage to the final step - mastering, we offer a 20% mastering discount.

Disclaimer:
1.Fandango Recording will fix any error or mistake on our part at no charge, however, it is the customer responsibility to listen to the masters on a quality player (CD, turntable, digital), and make sure there are no mistakes. In extremely rare cases the CD's may have some manufacturing problems, and Fandango Recording will replace the disc at no charge, however, we will not be hold liable for this.
2. Please do not listen the master CD in moving vehicles, as this will scratch the CD.
3. Please keep your masters on CD totally clean, free from scratches and dust, always in a case. For the digital files, the general rules of file storage applies. Fandango Recording usually keeps a backup of the projects for three months, however, this is not a rule, and we will not be hold liable for backups.
4. It is recommended that for vinyl albums production, the customer put us in contact with the print house, more specifically with the person who does the cut of the album. Fandango Recording uses an advanced simulator that gives all the statistics and how the vinyl album sound. In many cases this specialist does not have extensive experience, so, if the customer knows how the sound must be, he can raise objections when he is presented with the test pressing that are cut with the stampers created for each face
Music production
Each project is different, so we can provide an estimate after you let us know the details. But, as a guideline:

Custom beat production: from 200 €. Customer gets exclusive rights to the beat for the first 2000 sold units. Complete ownership is to be negotiated with the studio. The beat is completely tailored to the customer lyrics and structure.
Instrumental arrangement for demos or full songs: from 250 €.
Songwriting: create original music for provided lyrics: from 350 €.
Writing the harmony and arrangement - from 80€.
Fandango Recording retains the song copyright for the music part; or it can be negotiated, but Fandango Recording reserves the right to sell the copyright portion at its own discretion.

If vocal recording is required, vocal rates depend on the choice of vocalist, as they have their own rates. We can recommend and work with pro musicians, but we do not negotiate with them the price- this is the customer responsibility.
Audio and sound restoration and forensic audio

General cleaning. declick, decrackle, dethump, descratch, denoise: 60€ /hour of work
Manual restoration/forensic in spectrogram: 100€/hour of work.

We do not offer a quote unless we hear the audio material, as the amount of work can be estimated only listening. The quote will be accurate +/-10% within the quoted price.
Audio and video transfer to digital files/CD/DVD

The hourly rate for audio / video transfer is 30 € / hour. The price refers to hourly rate of working, Eg: a 60 minute cassette to transfer in digital takes more time than 60 minutes, as the set up time and basic editing, like splitting the songs, adds to the time worked. Please call or contact us for details.
Audio courses

The prices for audio courses are shown in the Courses page.
Website design and consultancy for music industry

Fandango Recording provides auxiliary services for music industry, as web design and consultancy, especially for musicians / bands or recording studios. The prices are based solely in the object of work, as it is always custom. Please contact us and make an appointment to discuss your needs, and, based on the discussion, we will provide a quote.
In the case of website design, Fandango Recording also takes care of the photo and video part of it if the customer so desire.

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The legal mumbo-jumbo, go ahead and read it, it's not that hard to understand... and it's important!

Booking, Payment and Terms

While we try to accommodate everybody, arrangements for recording studio time should be made at least 10 days before the session.Reservations are made on a first come, first serve basis; some sessions can be booked on short notice, pending the availability of the studio.

The booking is confirmed when a deposit is placed.

For recording, the deposit is 25% of the estimated recording time.
For mixing, mastering and restoration, the deposit is 80% of the estimated value.
For music production services - custom beats, demo/song instrumental arrangements - a 75% deposit is required prior to starting of the job.

The final price will always be within +/-10% of the quoted price.

Payment for studio work is due at the end of each individual session, regardless of the length. Payment options are bank transfer - account number to be provided in the invoice, and Visa/Mastercard though PayPal (add 5% fees), or cash - but only for projects under 1000 €.
LIEN: The studio shall have a lien on all properties delivered to the studio by the clients well as on all CD's, files, vinyl and tapes made by the studio for the client for any unpaid balance of the amount due to the studio for services or supplies rendered.

All prices are in Euros- €. Prices are subject to change without notice. The posted rates do not apply to business rates and major label signed acts.
The studio is a smoke free facility.

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