Book the room, the desk and an engineer in one go
One enquiry gets all three. We reply within a working day with a line-by-line quote and a soft hold on your dates - the hold is free and lapses on its own if you go elsewhere.
reply within 1 working day - 30% deposit confirms
the enquiry
Tell us what you are making
Six fields. You get a reply within one working day with a quote and a soft hold on the dates - the hold costs nothing and lapses on its own after a week if you decide against it.
a day here
Nine in the morning to seven at night
A standard ten-hour lockout, drawn the way we draw everything else. The strip is the day: flat through load-in, loud through the takes, a trough at the break, and quiet again once the rough mixes are printed.
one lockout - 09:00 to 19:00 - 6.3 billed hours
- 09:00
Load-in
Roller door straight into the live room. Nothing is on the clock yet.
- 10:00
Line check
Mics up, panels set, headphone mixes built for each player. Still not on the clock.
- 10:40
First take
The machine starts. This is the hour you begin paying for.
- 13:00
Break
An hour, off the clock. There is a kitchen and there is somewhere to sit that is not the sofa.
- 14:00
The long stretch
The best takes on most records happen between two and six in the afternoon.
- 18:30
Rough mixes
Balances printed while everyone is still in the room to argue about them.
- 19:00
Wrap
Files uploaded before you leave the yard. Gear stays standing if tomorrow is booked.
finding us
Where the building is and what to bring
- Address
- Roomtone RecordingUnit 9, Kestrel Yard118 Sorrel Street
- Hours
- Monday to Saturday, 09:00 - 23:00Sundays by arrangement, at the same rate
- Load-in
- Roller door off the yard, flat, no stepsTwo vehicles park inside the gate
- Getting here
- Ten minutes from the station on footBus stops at the end of Sorrel Street
- Reaching a person
- (503) 555-0142 book@roomtone.studio
Bring
- Your own snare, your own strings, your own pedals.
- Guide demos, phone recordings, anything with the arrangement on it.
- A named decision-maker. Records made by committee take twice as long.
- Lyrics printed. Nobody has ever regretted this.
- Food, or twenty dollars and the number of somewhere that delivers.
Do not bring a broken instrument and an afternoon to fix it. That is the single most expensive thing anyone does in this building.
Or just phone the control room
Between nine in the morning and eleven at night somebody in this building will pick up, and a five-minute conversation settles more than a fortnight of email.
(503) 555-0142