The daily tracking rate is $300 per day.

I charge a daily rate rather than an hourly rate. A "day," in my experience, usually begins in the early afternoon and ends in the hours sometime after midnight, either when we've reached the end of our rope or our ears stop talking to us coherently. We can, of course, begin and end earlier, but musicians tend to be night owls, so... There is a time during this block when we take a food break... usually an hour or two, or more if needed. Sometimes inspiration strikes at the 11th hour (or later!) so there is no set end time.

An hourly rate of $30 per hour is available if you do not need to spend a whole day recording or mixing.

The daily rate includes a two room apartment on the premises with a full bathroom. There are 2 full sized beds and a futon as well as an air mattress. Upon request there is also a futon downstairs in the control room. The band apartment is furnished with a small fridge, an electric tea kettle and coffee pot and a microwave. There are a few delis, a pizza shop, a breakfast joint and takeout chinese close by and a 24 supermarket about 20 minutes away.

For bands not driving here, the closest train is the Middletown, NY stop on the Port Jervis line via NJ Transit. A map and time schedule can be found here. We can schedule a pick up and departure time for me to bring you from and back to the train station. It is about a half hour drive.

Mixing daily rate is $200 per day. I can mix with the musicians present or I can mix to your specs and upload the files onto the Black Dirt site for approval or your suggestions for changes.

For mixes done directly from the Radar multitrack through the Toft desk, one rough, reference mix per song is included in the tracking fee. Any tweaks that need to be done to a later mix will be charged an hourly rate up to a full day's rate (ie: more than 6 hours). The Toft is not automated and there is no recall. Each mix will be a specific event, like the good ol' days, and set up and recall should be factored into the remix time. For artists that need the flexibility to remix often, I suggest we mix in Pro Tools. While mixing in Pro Tools can be fun, I have found the option of infinite recalls and endless mixing possibilities can sometimes be detrimental to the forward momentum of a project. If time is taken during tracking to commit to sounds and ideas, mixing "out of the box" should not be a problem.