SuperStyleSound  – Rates on Services Offered

Standard Labor Rate

The standard labor rate for most services is $100.00/hour. Studio rental and equipment rental rates may apply. Contact us for a quote – a competitive flat fee can very often be negotiated.

Sound for Picture – Film, Television, Games

Please contact us for an estimate on audio post production projects. The quoting process can be more involved with estimates often involving additional labor, facilities and other expenses. Smaller projects can often be secured for a flat fee; larger projects require estimates and cost reporting. 

Audio Postproduction & Sound Editing

All film- and media-related audio services, such as sound editing to picture, dialog editing, foley recording/editing, voiceover recording, audio mixing/re-recording: $900.00/day. A flat rate can often be negotiated. For project sound supervision: please inquire.

Assistant tasks, such as assistant sound editing, logging, transcription, file conversion and preparation: $700.00/day. 

Special Effects Sound Design

Phil Buffone has had extensive experience in creating specialty sound design, with the majority of his work focused on special sound effects design for longform episodic broadcast television, radio and television advertising as well as short and feature length films.  Special Effects Sound Design is $900.00/day. A flat rate can often be negotiated.

Film Scoring & Creative Music Services

Film scoring and other music composition, song-writing, music arrangement and orchestration, music supervision, music remix, music compilation – please contact us for quotes on these specialty services.

Music Production & Song Development

Album pre-production planning, music production/programming, song development, recording; working 1:1 intensively and creatively with a solo artist or band; artist development – these services are still offered where a significant album budget exists.

Music Mastering & Mixing

§  Deluxe mastering (analog outboard, advanced techniques executed in a large screening room/studio review room for film in a larger studio): $200/song *

§  Mastering from provided stems (fine mix tweaks, analog summing): $300/song*

§  Mixing and mastering from provided tracks (cleaned tracks or stems): $400/song

§  Mixing (with final to be mastered elsewhere): $250/song

§  Budget-conscious mastering – simple yet competitive (not recommended): $125/song (discounts do not apply)

* will require booking time in a separate, larger studio with outboard analog gear and all incidentals required to do so successfully.

Volume Discounts on Mastering & Mixing

When multiple songs are delivered within a 48-hour period, the following discounts apply to the standard rates on mastering & mixing services, above.

§  EP rate (4-7 songs): 10% discount

§  album rate (8-14 songs): 15% discount

§  bulk rate (15+ songs): 20% discount

On mix projects where considerable editing/clean-up is required, music editing time may be billable and is estimated before project start.

Music Editing

For instrumental and vocal editing, voice leveling, editing individual tracks including drum track editing, film music editing, miscellaneous music clean-up, the rate is $100.00/hour. A flat fee can often be arranged. 

Studio Time – Recording Studio Rates

For basic vocal, solo instrument recording, voiceover recording, music production / generic studio time at SuperStyleSound, a rate of $100.00/hour is charged including the engineer. Block rates are available. The compact Pro Tools- Native Instruments - Logic Pro-based studio / AudioSuite, features a relaxed recording atmosphere.

Voiceover Talent

SuperStyleSound has a roster of non-union talent at hand, even including, but in no way limited to Phil himself! (He is VERY proud of his silky smooth, deep and powerful yet sensuous voice (can you tell who wrote this? lol). Rates may vary with the individual voice actors and also with the complexity/duration of the subject matter. Please contact for a quote on your project. Ballpark non-union rate for talent: $200.00/hour. If recording voiceover at SuperStyleSound, the studio rate is $100.00/hour including engineer. 

**************************************************************************************************Standard Terms – All Services

Standard Terms: we require 50% payment in advance to begin – no exceptions. The remaining 50% final payment is expected before delivery of the final product. Two rounds of changes/fixes are included, after which the full daily work rate will be applied. 30 days net payment unless negotiated otherwise. Compound late payment interest of 5% will be applied to all balances outstanding after 60 days.

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