>From my looking around at mastering houses, most of what I see is a per track charge regardless of how many tracks are on the cd. If you go with Universal Mastering through Universal Studios, they charge $50/track regardless of how many tracks are on an album. The only differences are:
1. The more tracks you submit for them to do in a batch, the cheaper the per track charge gets. An example would be: We have a 6 track EP that we are going to record sometime in the fall. They charge $50/track, so we would pay $300. Now, since they offer discounts on the per track charge, we would end up getting each one done for $35 instead of $50. 12 or more tracks in a batch will get you $15/track. 2. Ambient or symphonic tracks are a different charge scale. They start out at $75 not to exceed 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, add an additional $10/minute. So, if you had an ambient track that was 20 minutes long, it would be $75 for the first 5 minutes and $150 for the remaining 15 minutes = $225 for the entire 20 minute track. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Smart Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 7:43 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [Jsonar] To You, How Many Tracks Make an Album? hi folks. I'm probably over-thinking this one, but how many tracks do people consider to be an album of music? Or, do you think of the collective noun album more in terms of overall duration, say 45-50 minutes plus, and that might consist of anything from a long track, or many many short tracks? In putting together my Website for audio mastering, part of what the client specifies when they fill out a form about their music is the number of tracks they need mastered. I'm thinking the following choices cover most possibilities: 1. Single CD-length album, 2. 1-9 individual tracks 3. Other (to be discussed later) My pricing is fairly simple, $20 a track or $200 for an album. So, there is some ambiguity here, since someone could specify 3 tracks, a symphony for example, which I would call an album if it added up to long enough. I can see potential arguments there, especially if someone submitted a single very long track of some sort of drone or ambient type music which could either be classed as a single track ($20) or an album ($200). Or, since so many people are moving away from physical media, towards streaming and the idea of a home music server, should I just simplify things and charge say $20 per track? That still doesn't get around the track length aspect, but it at least would limit the number of options on the form. I grew up with vinyl, cassette's and then many many CD's, so for me, the album concept is still important. But maybe it is slowly becoming anachronistic. Thoughts? Opinions? Chris _______________________________________________ Find JSonar and Sonar FAQs, articles, guides and downloads at jsonar.org. Jsonar mailing list [email protected] http://jsonar.org/mailman/listinfo/jsonar_jsonar.org _______________________________________________ Find JSonar and Sonar FAQs, articles, guides and downloads at jsonar.org. Jsonar mailing list [email protected] http://jsonar.org/mailman/listinfo/jsonar_jsonar.org
