Most studios do include an audio engineer as part of their hourly rate.
Keep in mind you usually get what you pay for when it comes to recording studios.
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Booking time in a good professional studio can cost anywhere from $50 to $500 dollars an hour. Music studios vary greatly in quality and affordability. However a good recording may be what you need to take your music to the next level. Playing live is the ultimate thrill and most musicians live for it. I’ve seen budgets on indie projects in the $3500 per song range turn out great.” If the heavy lifting is done at a home studio you should be able to save your budget for tracking and mixing. They’ll get all the takes and elements they tracked with the artist and spend four to six hours assembling and cleaning up, tuning, comping, adding to the vocals, and then getting a rough mix together. A session like that might run about four to six hours, and then after that, there’s a production component to it. Typically, that’s handled hourly in a production room at around $85 an hour for the studio, $50 an hour for the engineer. I’ve seen records where people will come in, having worked on a lot of it at their house, and they come into a really good studio to cut vocals with an experienced vocal producer. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the hit song but it has to really represent what the artist is all about. Typically, three songs sort of make the statement you need to say, and you want to make sure that it is representative of the essence of the artist. If you’re talking about Los Angeles and the demo is for a music act that you’re trying to put out, you want to make sure that it’s more than one song.