Services Offered at The Cat Mansion
We offer world-class service and quality for all your audio needs. Whether you’re a solo musician or a band working on a song, EP, or album, a voice actor in need of high-end vocal recording, or a company seeking audio production for marketing or social media, television, radio, or podcast, The Cat Mansion is equipped with the tools, skills, and experience to make your project a hit. Need something that’s not listed? Reach out! We offer many more audio services (including sound for picture, sound design for games, and more) than are listed here.
Production Services
Custom Composing: price varies, please inquire
Creation of custom music for use in your project, including performing and hiring session musicians as needed; from individual tracks, like drum programming, to full arrangements, ready for your vocals.
Live Tracking: from $125/hr
In-person recording in Clifton, VA at The Cat Mansion with an engineer, and digital delivery of all files. Select local clients only.
MIDI Re-tracking: from $25/setup + $5/min of audio
Recording an already-written MIDI track through a different synthesizer, drum machine, or sampler with effects to produce an audio file.
Re-amping: from $25/setup + $5/min of audio
Playing an existing track back through a new effects chain and amplifier and re-recording the result.
Session recording: price varies, please inquire
Live performance of your music by skilled musicians to be used in your song.
Vocal Tuning & De-Breathing: from $25/min per vocal track
Melodyne pitch correction or breath removal performed on an individual vocal take (cannot be performed on mixed/effected vocals).
Voiceover: price varies, please inquire
Performance and recording of spoken word for use in audio books, commercials, films, etc.
Audio Mixing & Mastering Services
Multitrack Mixing: from $240 per song for 10+ songs
The process of taking multiple stereo tracks, EQing, balancing, and adding effects to them that results in a stereo file that is ready to be mastered. Prices higher for high track count and mix complexity.
Mastering: from $80 per song for 10+ songs
Final preparation of audio files ready for delivery to streaming and other distribution services. Mastering services assume client provision of a well-mixed stereo file. Mastering requirements vary for streaming audio/video, television, and other broadcast media. Master files are prepared with destinations in mind. Multi-destination masters available for a fee.
Mix & Master: from $290 per song for 10+ songs
Multitrack mixing followed by mastering that results in the output of two stereo files: a mixdown and a master, prepared for the destination(s) of choice.
Stem Mastering: from $140 per song for 10+ songs
Mastering performed on no more than four stem tracks (e.g., all percussion, all basses, all guitars, all synths, vocals, etc.) plus bounced send effects, which require small audio repair (e.g. solving phase issues, noise removal, etc.) or other specific documented need prior to mastering preparation. This is not a mixing service, and it is assumed that the stems are fully mixed and prepared for mastering.