Studio Time
Studio Time is the most commonly booked service here at Impact Recording Studios. With booked time you have access to all instruments, microphones and the mixing engineer as an advisor. Standard rate is $75 per hour. When you purchase a Studio Time package the mixing engineer will do a Vocal Clean-Up, which does the basic beginning stages of mixing such as pitch and rhythm correction, and basic corrective EQ. Full service packages can be viewed on the Services page.
Impact Studios recording room has been analyzed by an acoustical engineer at Auralex Acoustics, and provided a solution. The purpose for the room being acoustically treated is to eliminate any echo or reverberation around the room. Some may think you would want to record in a concert hall, or in a controlled echo room, however this leaves a lot of uncontrollable variables in a recording. Recording with natural reverberation can affect the quality of the source of sound you are wanting to capture in the first place. Recording in a zero-reverb environment is always preferable because you can add any type of reverb you need to in post-production, effectively simulating any environment imaginable, all the while preserving the intricate details of the recording.
You may wonder why every single surface in the studio is not plastered in studio panels? When you think about sound as coming from a source, the goal is to stop it from bouncing. When sound is coming from a source you can measure where the sound can be bouncing to create reverb. With a specialized acoustical engineer, you can strategically place acoustic treatment to eliminate reverb in a room without full coverage, most effectively in a specific spot in the room. Any reverb that is left over in the room after the treatment (which is very little) can be removed very carefully in post-production, effectively achieving the same results in a fully plastered room you might see in a large facility charging triple the cost or more.