Studio Recording Rates

$350/day for studio lockout, includes engineer and all instruments.
This is a flat rate for the day, that being 10 hours from the agreed-upon start time.
If the session moves beyond that predescribed 10 hours, it is the engineer's sole decision to continue or stop.
Payment moves onto an hourly rate at this stage. Set-up and breakdown times are included in this rate.
Working in the day-rate scheme allows the band to relax and focus on their music, not stew and watch the clock.

$40/hour for hourly booking, includes engineer and all instruments.
All set-up and breakdown time is billed at this rate.
This also includes all meal/smoke breaks, file transfers, session backups and media burning.

Last Stop does not currently offer our services to include outside engineers.


The Many Ways To Skin A Cat

The recording process allows for many variants and variables to reach your final destination.
A session can constitute simply multi-tracking the basic backing tracks for all prepared songs, with follow-up sessions to deal with overdubs, vocals, etc. Additionally, a session can focus solely on tracking all parts of a single song.
Both truly rely upon the band’s preparation and performance for a successful and productive day of work.

Instruments should have a once-over by your tech. It sucks to have an amp or guitar buzz that just won’t seem to go away, or an intonation issue that rubs the song’s tuning all the wrong way.  We end up using precious time investigating remedies to problems that did not need to exist… And this is on your dime! Drumkits should be gone over for squeaky pedals, have new heads, and be tuned.
If you're really clever, we can tune the kit to each song’s key…

BE REHEARSED.   I’ll let that one sink in.


Capture and Creation

Last Stop does not write your song for you. We can offer learned advice culled from years of working with musicians, but we are not here to make your folk melody into a hard-hitting techno blip. If you have clear-cut goals, we can make them real. 
We excel at capturing you as a band, as a performance. We can make it sound weird and fun too, if you like. 
A focus on communication will propel your art with our technique towards a final media of which you can be proud.

A recording is forever, its how people WILL remember you.
Invest in yourself and your music and consider your approach for this experience.