people always ask me what i charge but i never had a price

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hey guys I'm fairly new to this whole home studio/music recording business and making money from music I've been recording for a long time, but i never charged for it and i would just like to ask more of the veteran recordists or whomever wants to help me out. What would be an ideal price to start charging somebody to record in a home studio or how would you do it? per song, hourly? or with payments? and how much would you charge them i mean i don't know that's why i came here lol. i have a client and he gave me his tracks and he wants me to drums on them he told me to mix and master it for him and he'll pay me and i don't know what a good starting price for a home studio to charge I was thinking maybe $5 $10 $15 $25 per song or per track to start of then later i could raise the price.
 
$40. an hour is standard around here. But you could start around $25. ~ if your good and fast.
 
I charge per song just like your thinking. But you may soon realize that that might not be a good idea. What if you get a band that fools around using your equipment and doesn't get one song recorded? Your not gonna like that man. Charging by the hour may be a motive for the band to get some stuff recorded.
 
Yeah they haven't made a good futuristic movie since *Soylent Green*
 
moresound said:
Yeah they haven't made a good futuristic movie since *Soylent Green*
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"It's people...Soylent Green is made out of people.
LISTEN TO ME HATCHER...YOU GOTTA' TELL 'EM...SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!"
 
SOYLENT BEIGE IS CHICKEN!!! :eek::spank::eek:
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Yeah it was great watching Charlton Heston kick Chuck Conners butt.
 
You should check out Heston in "The Omega Man"...another cool sci-fi movie that came before "Soylent Green" but both follow the Heston "Planet of the Apes" films. This was his mini sci-fi period from the late '60s to early '70s. :cool:

I think the movie "I am Legend" with Will Smith is actually a take-off on "The Omega Man"...
...which apparently was a take-off of the "I Am Legend" novel from 1964.


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And there is is also some similarity between the movie "I Am Legend" and the 1959 film with Harry Belafonte - "The World, the Flesh and the Devil". The scenes where Will Smith is in the stores with the manikins is very similar to some scenes that Belafonte did...and then later, there is a women also that comes into the plot. I'm wondering if the book "I Am Legend" copied some ideas from "The World, the Flesh and the Devil"...which of course took ideas from some other "doomsday" books.


Talk about a segue....from studio rates to sci-fi movies!!! :D
 
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miroslav said:
You should check out Heston in "The Omega Man"...another cool sci-fi movie that came before "Soylent Green" but both follow the Heston "Planet of the Apes" films. This was his mini sci-fi period from the late '60s to early '70s. :cool:

I think the movie "I am Legend" with Will Smith is actually a take-off on "The Omega Man"...
...which apparently was a take-off of the "I Am Legend" novel from 1964.


<EDIT>

And there is is also some similarity between the movie "I Am Legend" and the 1959 film with Harry Belafonte - "The World, the Flesh and the Devil". The scenes where Will Smith is in the stores with the manikins is very similar to some scenes that Belafonte did...and then later, there is a women also that comes into the plot. I'm wondering if the book "I Am Legend" copied some ideas from "The World, the Flesh and the Devil"...which of course took ideas from some other "doomsday" books.


Talk about a segue....from studio rates to sci-fi movies!!! :D
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miroslav said:
You should check out Heston in "The Omega Man"...another cool sci-fi movie that came before "Soylent Green" but both follow the Heston "Planet of the Apes" films. This was his mini sci-fi period from the late '60s to early '70s. :cool:

I think the movie "I am Legend" with Will Smith is actually a take-off on "The Omega Man"...
...which apparently was a take-off of the "I Am Legend" novel from 1964.


<EDIT>

And there is is also some similarity between the movie "I Am Legend" and the 1959 film with Harry Belafonte - "The World, the Flesh and the Devil". The scenes where Will Smith is in the stores with the manikins is very similar to some scenes that Belafonte did...and then later, there is a women also that comes into the plot. I'm wondering if the book "I Am Legend" copied some ideas from "The World, the Flesh and the Devil"...which of course took ideas from some other "doomsday" books.


Talk about a segue....from studio rates to sci-fi movies!!! :D
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The first movie made was *Last man on Earth* staring Vincent Price ~ Check that one out Miro!!! Well worth the watch!
 
Yeah...but "Last Man On Earth" came out in 1964 from a book published in 1954.

"The World, the Flesh and the Devil" came out in 1959 from the book "The Purple Cloud" written in 1902...so it predates the book "Last Man On Earth", and may also have been the seed for books like "On The Beach", also done as a doomsday movie in 1959 and a remake in 2000....both great and one that was really spooky to watch.
Most of the others have some sort of hope at the end...but "On The Beach" is about the total end...no hope.

PS
"Forbidden Planet" was on TCM tonight...I recorded it. :cool:
 
Have you seen Last man on Earth Miro? Price at his best!
I'll check out those others.
 
A million years ago....during Price's heyday.

I dunno...I never could take him very seriously, most of his movies were too over the top, he always overplayed the parts...but still entertaining to watch.
 
Yeah...seen that one too.
Have you ever checked out the movie "Ed Wood" with Johnny Depp...?
It's about the making of that movie and the guy who wrote/directed/filmed it - Ed Wood.
 
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