Music Production Services

Q. Describe the most common types of jobs you do for your clients.

A. Music Production, Music Composing, Music Arranging, Lyric writing, Artist and Band Promotion, Mixing & Mastering, Studio Musician services, Audio Editing (of which I do them all). I also provide graphic design and website building services.

Q. What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

A. Whenever you are in the process of hiring someone who provides the type of services Belltime Production provides, make sure you get references and can hear samples of their work.

Q. If you were a customer, what do you wish you knew about your trade? Any inside secrets to share?

A. It's good to know as much as you can about what you do. Knowing what the processes in getting your music sounding great is always a plus to the client.

Q. What questions should a consumer ask to hire the right service professional?

A. A consumer should always ask the following questions when getting ready to hire a professional in this field of services...

What services do you provide?
How long have you been providing your services?
Do you have any samples of your work?
Who have you done work for?
What are your prices?

Q. What important information should buyers have thought through before seeking you out?

A. Buyers should always have a budget or projected budget to work with before contacting me for services. It helps me to weed out the none serious customers from the serious ones.

Q. Why does your work stand out from others who do what you do?

A. I think my work differentiates from others who do the type of work I do, number 1, because I have a thorough understanding and person experience in every faze of the creation, mixing, mastering, pre & post editing etc... 2nd thing is, I have competitive rates and a proven track record of excellent quality services.

Q. What do you like most about your job?

A. Music is an intricate part of my life. Being able to provide quality production services to people, and to hear them come back with a positive testimony "I love the work you did on my recording" is a great feeling knowing I have satisfied another customer!

Q. What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

A. I usually get quite a few questions from customers ranging from "how much does it cost, to can you fix bad vocal recordings"?

Q. What do you wish customers knew about you or your profession?

A. I think it's good for customers to know that I truly understand every facet of the music creation, recording, mixing & mastering, album design, and marketing/promotion side of their music project. My experience isn't only as a studio engineer, but I am also a musician, music composer, songwriter, music editor, artist/band promoter + more.

Q. How did you decide to get in your line of work?

A. I've been involved in the music industry for most of my life. I was the guitar player for various bands for several years, including the floaters orchestra, David Ruffin, Tyrone Davis, Laura Lee, and many others. I had been writing, composing and mixing songs all that time, but didn't become very serious about it until 1998. Once people started hearing my mixes and asking me to record and mix their music, I know it was time to open up my own studio.

Q. If you have a complicated pricing system for your service, please give all the details here.

A. My pricing system isn't exactly a cut and dry $25hr to $60hr rate. For instance...
Studio Recording Rate: $40hr.
It covers any instrument / vocal parts or song material already created but needs to be recorded and mixed. Mixing Rates: $40hr., or $50 - $200 per song. It depends on how many tracks and how much needs to be done to each track.
Pitch Correction Rate: $100 per vocal track.
Music Composition Rate: $100 for the first instrument, $65 each additional instrument.
Vocalists Rates: $65 per vocalist per song. Example 1, if a tenor singer is hired to sing on your recording, they will sing all the tenor parts of your song at $65. Example 2, If you have a 3 part harmony you want recorded, the rate will be 3x $65 per vocalist per song...exception, if 1 vocalist were to sing all the harmony parts, the rate would be: $65 for the first vocal parts, and then $30 per each other vocal parts. Example 3, if Hey Girl is hired to sing 3 harmony parts, she will be paid $65 for the first harmony vocal, $30 for the second harmony vocal, and $30 for the last harmony vocal.
Lyric Writing Rate: $200 per lyric.
Mastering Rates: $40 per song. This includes Eq, Compression and limiting, anything additional will be at a rate of $60 per song.

Q. If you were advising someone who wanted to get into your profession, what would you suggest?

A. Study the field and see what everybody else is doing. Make sure you do a lot of research and reading on this subject. Then decide how you are going to prepare yourself to become a good service provider yourself....it takes lot's of hard work and dedication to learn and apply.

Q. What is your greatest strength?

A. My integrity is my greatest strength. It is very important to me that I do whatever I tell my customers I will do. Getting the jobs right the first time and on time is pretty much my track record. Manipulating audio and making it do things it should have done in the first place is surely somewhere at the top of my strength list.