Make a captivating pricing page that makes music production studios shine

Generally speaking, professional recording studios base their pricing using an hourly rate. The cost per hour of recording studios can range from $30-$100 an hour. Freelance or beginner engineers may offer less, but high-end studios will charge upwards of $75-$100 an hour.

Music producers will often ask for a certain percentage of the streaming royalties generated by songs theyve produced. Beginner producers may not have enough leverage to ask for a percentage, but experienced producers can ask for anywhere between 2% and 50% of the streaming revenue.

In order to set the price of a musical production or mix, it is important to follow these 6 steps: 1Assess fixed and variable costs. 2Include your salary as a producer in the price. 3Rate better your best services. 4Identify what makes you unique. 5Communicate better why they have to choose you.

An independent music producer may bill $200 to $1,500 per day as of 2023. Contrarily, producers employed by record companies or studios typically receive a salary. In the US, a producers pay might range from $20,000 to $1 million as of 2023.

The cost to build a professional recording studio can vary, professional recording studio costs typically range from $30,000 and up to $400,000 or even more depending on the studio. If your home just doesnt have what it takes to house your studio space, its time to look elsewhere to set up shop.

For independent artist deals (either self-released or small indie label), a producer might get between 1525 percent of net royalties which usually means the royalties left over after recording costs, producers fees, and other third-party production costs like manufacturing and distribution are paid.

The other common way is to take a percentage of the song. Typically producer percentages are anywhere from 8%-20%, depending on a variety of factors (how much work you do, which label you work with, how greedy the artist/manager is, etc).

You need to charge a session fee. Without knowing the specific details of where you are in your career I cant tell you how much it should be, but it needs to be something. In general, Ive seen local producers charge as low as $50/hour and $150 per 4-hour session block to record and mix local artists.