Our day rate is £160.
Our hourly rate is £20.
Everything is included.
You can always use our ever-so-handy Price Calculator to determine how much your session will be in advance:
Usually we have an offer or two on the go. Why not take a look and see what’s available?
We’re quite proud of the studio. Really we are. to this end, we’d love it if you came to pay us a visit. Sure, you might be a little far away but if you can make it, great. We’ll have a chat about what you need, have a drink, listen to some records. Give us a call.
Recording
We’ll record anything at The Crash Factory. Got a nose flute? We’ll stick a mic in front of it. We are sticklers for quality however. Sure, we’ll never say you can’t do something but we certainly advise that less is more. A song a day is a pretty good ballpark figure, especially if your time includes mixing.
Mixing
After you’ve recorded your masterpiece, you’ll need to mix it. Anything from subtle balancing to crazy effect-heavy freaking goes on here and whatever your project it’s a vitally important step which cannot be rushed. Your engineer will be able to advise what sort of time mixing might take up in your project. It’s also handy to bring in some reference material for us to listen to – maybe the drums from this record, the guitars from here. It’ll give us a better idea of what you want which is, after all, the point.
If you don’t want to waste valuable tracking time while you’re at the studio, we offer an ‘offline mixing’ service. This is an unattended mix session done in studio down time and to a per-song flat fee rather than the hourly rate. It gives you the opportunity to think purely about recording and enables us to be a bit more relaxed and creative. You’ll know that the mixing budget wont get out of hand if time drags on and you also get a bit of studio time to make any changes you want to the mix. Bonus.
Mastering
Mastering is charged at £30/track.
It is the final creative step in making a real record and it can make the difference between great records and pansy wannabe demos. There’s a trend in the music industry right now to squash the living crap out of your record and make it louder than everyone else. Whilst we love loud music – and we really love loud music – we see this trend like a room full of people all shouting at each other to be heard. When we master we take care of your music and aim to present it in it’s best light so your record flows as a whole. But if it turns out it’s best light is destroying people with white noise, we can do that also.
We’re likely to do a deal on mastering a full album, so get in touch. Although basic ‘loudness maximising’ generally happens on every session if required, we’ve found it to be extremely difficult to find the objectivity that mastering requires after you’ve been working on the tracks all day. This is why we don’t like to master a song in the same session it is recorded, and why mastering is included as a separate entry on our price calculator.
Live Recording
As well as our dudey studio we have a high-spec 16-channel mobile recording rig. You want the audience screaming your name on your recording? You want to feel the live energy of a gig and maybe even smell a bit of sweat and smoke? We’re the guys to call and we’ll do you a great job. We also like to cheat a little to get you a much much better live recording than you’ll have heard elsewhere: as well as the same tricks we might use in studio sessions we do a full studio-quality mix of your set. never again will you cringe at that cardboard box drum sound or that tinny, nasal guitar. It’s quite refreshing to hear actually.
Live recording is charged at £250 per session. A session basically means your gig plus a mixing session in the studio. We’ll record any band that is playing, and don’t charge extra to mix every band. This means it makes the whole thing lot cheaper if you get every band you’re playing with involved – split it between three or four bands and it’s a steal!
For a live recording, we need to get the go-ahead from the promoter of the night and also the sound engineer, as well as working in a venue that has the right specifications (Nottingham venues like Junktion 7, Rock City, The Rescue Rooms are all good, as well as Sumo and The Charlotte in Leicester, The Vic Inn in Derby and Loughborough University). Call us for a chat about your particulars.