Studio & Production

Mixing, Mastering & Vocal Production

Sessions built to keep raw emotion and clarity front and center.

Studio sessions crafted to keep raw emotion and clarity front and center. Professional mixing, mastering, vocal production, and live sound engineering.

Chris Mayers at a large mixing console in the studio, outboard racks behind him

Starting from

$120 per song

Editing and mixing are separate services, each priced per song — the same rate whether the song was recorded here or sent in, provided the session arrives prepared. Recording is billed hourly, because session length depends on what is being tracked.

Rates

Recording from $80 per hour
Editing from $120 per song
Mixing from $120 per song
Mastering from $30 per song

Services

Recording Editing Mixing Mastering Vocal production Live sound

What’s included

  • Two revisions on editing, mixing and mastering — more considered case by case
  • Mix reviewed and signed off before mastering begins
  • Vocal production, billed as studio time within the recording session

What you’ll need to provide

  • Stems are supplied case by case — for mixes handled by another engineer, live performance playback, and similar needs. Ask when you book.

The details

Turnaround
Each service carries its own minimum turnaround, and 24 hours is deliberate rather than arbitrary. I edit, then return to the session the next day with fresh ears to catch what fatigue hides — and mix the same way. A straightforward 4–8 vocal track session turns around in 24 hours per service; booking editing and mixing together means 48. Complexity adds time. Mastering follows within 3 hours of the mix being signed off.
Revisions
Two rounds included, case by case beyond that
What you send
Supplied on request, case by case

Sound & PA

Hosting and performance are booked separately from sound, because what a room needs varies enormously. If your venue is not covered, I can engineer it or bring the system in.

Live sound engineering from $100 per hour
Sound system rental from $300 per event, scoped to the room

Why recording is hourly

Recording is hourly because the work is not the same job twice. A solo artist over a beat is a few tracks and a quick setup. A four-piece band tracked live means far more channels, far more microphones, and setup time before a note is recorded. Billing by the hour keeps that honest in both directions — you are not subsidising a session you did not need, and complex sessions are not rushed to fit a flat fee.

Solo artist over a beat

Typically a handful of vocal tracks

Full band, tracked live

Commonly 16 or more tracks

Preparing your session for mixing

Sending a session recorded elsewhere? A tidy session mixes faster and costs you less.

  1. Label the session folder with the song name, tempo and key.
  2. Name every track for its take and the part it plays — lead vocal verse, chorus, high harmony, piano solo, and so on.
  3. Start all audio tracks from the beginning of the song, so everything lines up on import.

Track record

Production, recording, mixing and mastering credits across Trinidadian and Canadian artists.

  • "Nah Go Play" — Swappi
  • "Bamboo" — 1 Sing
  • Harm and Ease
  • Pink Leather Jackets
  • Mustik
  • Chinee
  • Ayanna La Borde
  • Kibwe
  • Derson
  • Dinero
  • Scartown Koom
  • Adam RYO D'Amario
  • Karma X

From past work

Chris Mayers seated at a large recording console with a studio monitor overhead Chris Mayers leaning on a mixing console, tape machine and outboard gear behind him Chris Mayers adjusting faders on a large mixing console mid-session

Bookings across the GTA carry no travel charge. Beyond it, travel is billed at $0.72/km — the CRA reasonable allowance — and quoted upfront with your booking.

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