Web Radio and Television Broadcasting

Music Recording

On Location Recording Rates

At Lortron, flexibility is the key to our on location recording rates. You can book from 2 to 8 hours per day. You have a choice of an expert team of engineers and producers who will help you realise your musical vision. Once your project is recorded and mixed, you can master it with us without the inevitable expense that changing recording studios incurs. Our aim is to provide the best possible quality while keeping our recording rates as competitive as possible

Audio Recording and Mixing Rates, Monday to Friday

Our regular audio recording rates are

$75 per hour, audio and video $95 per hour on week days for a single or double act and includes the services of one of our expert audio engineers and camera person. For bands, an additional setup fee of $45 is payable. This rate includes use of equipment such as Zoom recorders, Behringer mixers, laptop computers and HD digital cameras. Final mastering at a fee of $100 per hour includes a finished CD/DVD per session.

Audio Recording and Mixing Rates, Weekends

Rates at weekends for recording and mixing are $100 per hour. 

Studio Recording and Mixing Package Rates

Our Demo Day Recording and Mixing Package is available weekends only, and includes up to eight hours recording and mixing. This package is ideal for band demos, or for people who just want to get their feet wet. This package is also very popular with singer songwriters who want to create demos of new material in a friendly and creative atmosphere.

The total day rate for the Demo Day Recording and Mixing Package, including a CD and studio setup is $600.

Audio Mastering Rates

Rates for mastering include the use of recording studio facilities and the services of our mastering and production engineer.

Our regular rate is $100 per hour.  

Albums of up to ten tracks are charged at $800.

Albums of up to fourteen tracks are charged at $1,100.

Audio Programming Rates (Drum tracks, hip-hop backing tracks)

Our programming services, offered by our engineer and producer, are negotiable depending on the project. To make an enquiry, Contact Us.

Production and Arranging Rates

Our production engineer offers pre-production assistance, full production services and arranging. You have a choice between hourly rates or a fixed fee and royalty rate per track. To find out more about our production services, contact us.

Video Editing and videography

Rates for mastering.

Our regular rate is $110 per hour.

A fully produced DVD will be charged at $2000.

Elements of video production include (1) Pre-Production, (2) Production, and (3) Post Production. All video productions are organized this way to ensure that the process is a seamless one, and the final-result is as envisioned. Pre-production is the planning stage of your shoot, and occurs before the camera starts rolling. By creating storyboards, scouting locations, and figuring out the budget ahead of time, the goal is for your production to be free of unnecessary worry. Production is the shooting stage of your shoot, which includes cinematography, audio, lights, as well as directing, art and effects. Post production begins when your camera stops rolling. All footage is then logged and captured, organized, and then edited. But Post Production does not stop here. Effects and transitions are designed, music is added, and color compositions are made.

Data Archiving

What happens to the data when the project is mixed recorded and mastered? At Lortron Studios we use the best equipment available to store your valuable data. However we all know that archiving in the digital age is not without its pitfalls. Discs become corrupted, operating systems fail. All of us involved with computers have been on the receiving end of these kinds of problems at one time or another. If you are coming to work at Lortron Studios on a major project (album, ep or just a single) we recommend that you bring your own hard drive, and backup regularly. That way if disaster strikes, your files will be safe. We will do everything we can to keep your files in perfect working order, but in the end your files are your responsibility

Consolidation

When a project is finished many people are happy to take the results of the mix, and the finally mastered files, and to trash the session files. Others, because of potential remixes, or simply for sentimental value wish to take the session files with them. During the mixing process files are often cut up leaving only very small sections of data. If you are confronted with thousands of sound files it will take a long time to make any sense of them.

So at the end of a project it is common to merge or consolidate each instrumental and vocal file into a file that if you start it a zero, will play the music in the correct place. Essential if you plan to have re mixes done.

Our rate for this service is $55/hour

Time and Space

Hard drive space is at a premium in a busy recording studio like Lortron. In some larger studios rental is charged for hard drive space.  At Lortron there is no such cost for the customer. However we are not in a position to act as a storage facility for each and every project we do. We will keep your files in our system for three working weeks after your final session. After that period, if we have not heard from you, we reserve the right to erase your files from our system. If for some reason you need to stop recording mid project, please try to let us know what you intend doing, and what you want to do with your files.  Your files are your responsibility.

Lortron

Barry M. Ion
Ph: 0282093893,  0404399109
or   0488443822

 
www.lortron.com Level 1, 420 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction

New South Wales 2022 Australia