Pricing philosophy
Independent artists deserve the same certainty a label finance sheet gets without the cloak-and-dagger routine. Sessions charge on time booked, microphones sit in racks whether you tracked last weekend or six years ago, engineers answer questions plainly. Transparent pricing stays structural: if the clock runs four hours, you owe four multiplied by the hourly you picked. The booking screen shows exactly what clears at checkout. Nobody gets told they need a surcharge because the chorus is loud.
If something optional costs extra (overnight unattended storage beyond policy, mastering rush, filmed content), we outline it inside the enquiry so you approve before invoices move. Gatekeeping wastes everyone's petrol. We would rather musicians drive home knowing what they wired than scroll invoices in shock.
Dry hire
fifteen pounds sterling per hour, minimum booking two consecutive hours straight through without an engineer
Dry hire
- £15 per hour · minimum two hours straight through
- Four-hour block lump sum £50 where listed in booking
- Eight-hour block lump sum £90 where listed
You push faders yourself, bring approved laptop, licence your plugins beforehand. Fits confident producers, visiting engineers borrowing a quieter room while their flatmates sleep, and bands whose guitarist mixes at home nightly.
Full kit list spans the dry hire page and matches what we patch at handover.
Book dry hire →With engineer
thirty pounds sterling per hour including engineer, minimum booking two consecutive hours
With engineer
- £30 per hour · minimum two hours
- Engineer arrives 15 minutes before your session
- Includes initial mix-down at the end of the session
- Files delivered same day via WeTransfer
Our engineer configures gain staging, troubleshoots patching, cues loop points, edits safe takes, and keeps headphones sorted so vocalists stop worrying about talkback routing. Suited to first-time studio artists, ensembles too busy arranging to troubleshoot clocking gremlins, and anyone who hires for sonic safety net alongside performance focus.
Book with engineer →Mixing and mastering
Post-production runs outside hourly blocks (unless booked as attended mix time). Turnaround stems, stem counts, and revision rounds settle per project envelope.
Mixing (per song)
£60 per song, stereo mix, two revision rounds included.
Complex stem packages or analogue stem recalls may move the line. Book a call or note stem depth at enquiry.
Mastering
- £40 per song, stereo master, two revisions included
- £300 album bundle, up to 12 tracks, mastered as a cohesive set
LP sequencing, alternative loudness targets, and vinyl premasters require spec sheet agreement.
Block booking and loyalty-style discounts
Single evenings add up versus booking a disciplined block. Structures we routinely discuss with returning clients look like these (non-binding scaffolding you can adapt when you reconcile finance):
- Rolling ten-hour bundles: prepay studio hours at a slightly lower hourly than three separate short visits (exact percentage keyed to calendar occupancy).
- Double weekend month: two full weekends locked for album drum tracking earns rate stability plus priority rescheduling.
- Podcast quarterly: four identical-length fortnightly sessions attract a modest cut if invoiced together.
Ask when you know dates. Nothing auto-applies yet, so mention "block" when you enquire.
Payment, deposits, and cancellation
Payment terms are agreed when you book (WhatsApp, phone, or email). We confirm the slot and access details for Evans House, 1st Floor, Unit HL1, Norman St, Warrington, WA2 7HW plus parking reminders. Deposit-only holds only appear when we mutually agree bespoke block contracts (then split schedules sit in written terms).
Reschedule or cancel with at least 48 hours' advance notice to preserve refund eligibility as set in terms & conditions; inside that window policy tightens because the room loses resale time. Nobody likes reading legalese so we keep the gist here: behave fairly and we reciprocate around genuine emergencies wherever policy allows.
Compared with Manchester or Liverpool city-centre studios
Day rates headline comparably attractive when you tally driving minutes, tunnels, congestion charges where applicable, and paid parking ramps on top of the studio invoice. Warrington sits between both cities, reachable from Cheshire or the M62 without feeding a meter every ninety minutes whenever the shoot runs late.
North West hubs sometimes quote higher dry-hire tiers because square footage budgets differ. Norman Street keeps overheads calibrated for independent clientele: you swap marble reception desks for usable clock time in a room that behaves when you audition takes at home the next afternoon.
If you commute from Lancashire or Wirral purely because you assumed affordability requires a metropolis postcode, recalculate fuel and time versus these posted rates. Often that difference funds another hour or two over a typical month of rehearsals.