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Our rates

We are affordable. 

Hourly rates and block rates are available upon request. 

Budgets are important to you, we are happy to discuss your budget situation and how we can accommodate that budget.  It is our belief that every artist should be awarded a career building product from our studio no matter what you paid for it, so call us and lets see if we can help you in your budgetary concerns.

Film scoring and commercial work is by consultation and quote only.

Session musicians available for all genres of music. Session musicians rates by quote.

POLICY ... please read and understand these guidelines listed below carefully.

Reserving Studio Time:

Reservation of studio time will be confirmed upon receipt of a PO or verbal statement from a record label or artist.  We encourage a 3-4 week booking schedule.  Before time can be held a 50% deposit and credit card on file is required. Deposit must be received no later than 14 days in advance of the scheduled session dates.

Billable hours for your session begin at scheduled time, PLEASE be on-time.

For information on available studio time and rates,  call 847.221..5676, or email scheduleinfo@p10studios.com.

~~planet10studios will wave the above reservation time guidelines due to last minute bookings on the part of the record label or artist~~

Cancellation:

Cancellation must occur at least 14 days in advance of the scheduled date and time.

planet10studios has the right to retain all deposits if studio time is not canceled within the time frame stated above. 

planet10studios reserves the right to charge full price for session cancellations that occurred without proper notice applied to the rescheduled sessions.

Policy:

No project in any form will be released without payment in full.

Payments:

We accept cash, check, money orders, PayPal, Visa, Master Card and bank transfers as forms of payment.

on Self funded projects, all payments are to be made at the end of each days session.. no exceptions.  

If paying by check........

planet10studios reserves the right to hold all projects until verified cleared by our bank.  Returned checks will be charged a $50.00 fee.

Project Storage:

Projects may be stored at planet10studios for a period of 30 (thirty) days after completion of project. We wil contact you to confirm a date to transfer all files to you.  Client must remove project from studio after this period or pay storage fees. Shipping charges incurred for the shipment of hard drives are billed at cost. Hard Drives are available from p10studios. Complete consolidation is provided, what does that mean??

1. Your project will have the entire Nuendo sessions backed up to your drive.

2. All tracks on all songs will be consolidated to .wav files @ 24/48 with all mix parameters at the time of mix approval, (eq, compression, fx).

3. All tracks on all songs will be consolidated to .wav files @ 24/48 with out any mix parameters at all.

**File consolidation will allow any DAW the opportunity to open the project.

Project Contract:

A contract for our 'recording services' is required by planet10studios and its clients to help facilitate a complete understanding of what you expect from our team and what we expect from our clients. 

All rates quoted to the artist include the following:

• engineer
• amps
• keyboards 
• guitars
• drums
• sample database

All other items that are specific to an artists' needs that shall be rented, will be applied to daily charges (at our cost) and paid for at the end of each days session by the artist.

Who We Are

Jimmy B. Johnson..

   .president

   producer and engineer

Frank Lucas..

   vp.business development

   keyboardist and composer

Rob Olewinski..

   vp.studio operations

   tech, photo, video and imaging

Nick Stober..

   sales, marketing, guitarist, engineer

Molly Krueger..

   intern

We welcome all

Freelance Producers and Engineers.

Our studio is also a place for the up and coming and of course seasoned engineers and producers that don't have a place to record.  We encourage the up and coming to use our place to  provide their clients a fantastic environment to create music.  Whether it be tracking drums or a complete record or mixing only.  Please contact us for details regarding special rates for the use of our facility.