Professional Mastering
$100 per song for Mastering (with Head Mix / Mastering Engineer, Josh Shirt). Josh will make your music sound professional and polished, like the music you love.
$140 per song for Enhanced Mastering (with Head Mix / Mastering Engineer, Josh Shirt). With this service, Josh gives concise feedback on your final mix before he masters your song for a better result. Level up your mixing skills with this service.
$180 per song for Advanced Mastering (with Head Mix / Mastering Engineer, Josh Shirt). Josh gives concise feedback on your mix before mastering. Once you’ve made the changes you want to make, Josh will professionally treat your vocal (transparent pitch correction and EQ) and instrumental while mastering (performing further expert balancing on your mix) for superb sound.
Additional masters run through our processing (for example, an instrumental version of your track) are charged at $60 per iteration after payment of the fee above.
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Professional Mixing and Mastering
Send us your stems and we’ll mix & master your song for you (if you don’t know what stems are everything is explained here).
We will make you sound your best and deliver to you a ready-to-release track.
$300 for a song with up to 10 stems (with Head Mix / Mastering Engineer, Josh Shirt) – Includes 2 hours of mixing work, and 1 x Mastering.
$400 for a song with up to 15 stems (with Head Mix / Mastering Engineer, Josh Shirt)– Includes 3 hours of mixing work, and 1 x Mastering.
$500 for a song with up to 20 stems (with Head Mix / Mastering Engineer, Josh Shirt) – Includes 4 hours of mixing work, and 1 x Mastering.
$600 for a song with up to 30 stems (with Head Mix / Mastering Engineer, Josh Shirt)– Includes 5 hours of mixing work, and 1 x Mastering.
Stems are fully explained here.
Payment option for new clients: 50% upfront and the remaining balance once you are completely happy with the sound of your finished song.
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If your project is more unusual we would love to chat with you about it – contact us here
“Finish My Song” Package
$300 / song. If you’re making music and it’s difficult to call something “done” then work with us to finish your song! We’ll assist you in finishing your track by listening to it with our expert ear and then sharing mix and production tips. From our advice, make the revisions that you want to your song and then we will master your song (Mastering Engineer will be Head Mix / Mastering Engineer, Josh Shirt).
This is an informative process in which you’ll receive our advice so you can make the right tweaks to your song and song, before you send your finished song to us for mastering. In the mastering stage we will realize the full potential of your song.
By purchasing the “Finish My Song” package, we’ll teach you new skills and use our skills to finish your song. Expect to level up your recording, mixing and music production and take away a professionally finished track!
Professional Feedback on Your Song (/ Final Mix)
$200 per song. Have you ever wanted to ask an expert “How can I improve my final mix?”, “What can be improved in my song arrangement?”, or, “How can I make my production sound even better?” If so, we’re here to help! Send us your song and we’ll email you with creative ideas, as well as technical tips and tweaks to make to enhance your music. Your mixing skills and production skills will level up through this process.
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5-Star Rated DJ Lessons
$100 per hour, in person in Fort Collins, Colorado. We come to you.
Learn how to DJ – with all equipment provided for your lessons! You’ll also learn a great deal about music in the process.
5-Star Rated Ableton Live Lessons
$100 per hour, online worldwide, or in person in Northern Colorado, USA
Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, we teach music production lessons in the awesome, versatile, and industry-standard “Ableton Live”.
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5-Star Rated Music Production Lessons
$100 per hour, online worldwide, or in person in Fort Collins, Colorado
We teach music production lessons that cover a broad spectrum of music-making topics. Learn how to be a music producer and make music with your own unique style and sound.
Read more about our Music Production Lessons here
5-Star Rated Music Mixing Lessons
$100 per hour, online worldwide, or in person in Fort Collins, Colorado
We are experts in sound and music mixing and we are here to teach you what we know! When you take music mixing lessons with us, we will explain, step-by-step, how to get a professional sound from the music you’re making at home.
If you’ve recently finished recording an album or EP but the sound quality just isn’t right then our Music Mixing lessons are for you! Lessons are given one-on-one with our Head Mix / Mastering Engineer, Josh Shirt.
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(If you want us to mix and master your music for you, see “Professional Mixing and Mastering” above).
Professional Home Recording Studio Consultations
$300 per consultation – price includes a one hour one-on-one consultation with Josh Shirt (Head Mix/Mastering Engineer at Shirty Mastering) followed by detailed notes and suggestions that Josh sends to you by email following the consult. In order to cover all topics and studio configuration options, podcasters and solo musicians usually need to purchase one consultation, whereas bands & producers usually benefit from two consultations.
More info: We are here to help you create a great home recording studio. Whether for podcasting, a music producer, a DJ, an ASMR-tist, a voiceover actor, a singer / songwriter or a band. We meet with you online (or in person in Fort Collins) and discuss your aims, and then we recommend equipment for your new studio and explain how to configure everything to get the best sound and workflow. At the end of the one-on-one consultation we share extensive notes and suggestions by email. We can also explain the basics of recording great sound as part of this service – a “101” which is suitable for complete beginners.
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Music Production
$100 per hour. We’ll enhance your music by filling out your songs with more instruments, melodies and “ear-candy” to give them that “fully-produced” feel.
Please get in touch for a comprehensive quotation for your project.
Professional Audio Editing
$100 per hour. We can seamlessly edit together a flawless version of your song or podcast. Send us your recordings (including bloopers!) and we’ll use our expert ear to create something cohesive and complete. We can also create audio that conforms to Audible, Spotify or CD BABY standards, if required.
Please get in touch for a comprehensive quotation for your project.
Fort Collins Recording Studio
We can record your music in Fort Collins, Colorado. Just contact us for a comprehensive (no obligation) quote and let us know:
- how many songs you need to record
- how many band members
- how many instruments per song
- your musical genre
Contact us here to enquire about our Fort Collins Recording Studio
Gift Certificates
Any of our services can be given as a gift for the musician in your life. We supply physical and digital gift certificates for all of our services.