RJ Sound Studio - Recommendations

Technical Recommendations

Advanced bookings before 2 days of recording with complete information regarding the project is recommended.
Mixing and Mastering: The following are the recommendations for the multitrack song mixing and mastering.
- Format: Uncompressed PCM Wave files or AIFF files in stereo format are recommended audio formats for mixing and mastering workflows in our studio.
- Sample rate and bit-depth: A sample rate of 48Khz or higher and bit depth of 24 bits for individual audio channels are accepted for mixing and mastering.
- Volume Levels: A Multitrack song arrangement can have different audio levels depending on the artistic intent and feel by the music producer or arranger, but no audio files shall have peak volume levels above -3dBFS. If any audio files have amplitude levels more than -3dB, it is highly recommended to offset equivalent volume adjustments to every audio track in the arrangement session so as no individual audio tracks have peaks more than -3dBFS. This does not mean master fader level adjustment and is important to preserve multi-track audio sample peaks without clipping for mix.
- Separate reverb, delay and other fx: In case of particular reverbs, delays or other effects for one or several tracks in the arrangement to be applied, a copy of the dry audio track without applying them are also recommended to be included.
- Crosscheck and confirm: Since its not usual routine for many music producers to export their song arrangement sessions in to multi-track audio files mistakes and errors are common. Crosscheck all wave audio files by properly playing them individually throughout after the export and confirm no mistakes or errors happened. Some common mistakes found includes muted and silent audio track exports, naming errors with alternate instrument audio in the file, or sometimes mixed audio of several other tracks unintentionally. Make sure to avoid if any occurred.
- Include preview reference mix file: Include a music programmers mixed preview file of the song for reference.
For film dub purpose accepted format specs and recommendations are:
- Frame sizes: HD 720p or Full HD 1080p, recommended. Original frame size 2K and above film captures recommends down converted dub copies for faster dub-edit workflows.
- Aspect ratio: 16:9 video with square pixels only. (Suitable letterboxing with black mattes instead of crop cinematic ratios are preferred)
- Display Data burn-ins: Film/Shorts title with details on reel numbers, frame per second and SMPTE timecode printed throughout the movie.
- Codecs: Intra frame codecs such as Apple ProRes (LT or 422), Avid DNxHD (36, 100 or 145) etc are preferred, since they enhance faster dub-edit workflows among our systems.
- Color-space: Rec. 709 recommended or P3 (Gamuts wider than these with unnatural looking colors, gamma curves or transcoded log or raw formats from cinema cameras that aren't converted properly, are not recommended and in case needed it needs to be previewed and approved by the recording engineer in our studio display systems before date to avoid faulty workflows)
- Dub Copy Max Length: 30 minutes maximum. Films longer than 30 minutes timeline recommends splitting dub copies in shorter reel lengths with respective reel numbers displayed on the dub copies. Initial video censor beep tones of 1 second added (2 second silent black screen as timeline margin before the beep) on every reel of dub copy is much appreciated for audio and post processing safe-sync workflows.
- Pilot Tracks: Pilot tracks with clear dialogues performed by artists from location recordings must be in sync with the video, highly recommended.
- 2 Days Prior Submitting: Submitting the dub copies 2 days prior to dubbing and advanced booking of date for dubbing in our studio can help crosschecking of the requirements and necessary solutions to be applied properly before and hence faster, efficient and comfortable dub-experience for your project. For longer recording works that may need more than one day, feel free to check our flexible hourly rate packages that may benefit your project.

Regarding the above mentioned recommendations, helps will be given to any client who are willing to comply. Please contact us to get any further details or advises.

Disciplinary suggestions

If you are sure that quality and service methods of RJ Sound Studio is not what you need for your project or work, kindly avoid us. Avoid experimenting and blaming for unclear or unexpected results.
Proper and respectful communication is recommended and we welcome sharing of new thoughts and ideas of creativity for any project. Make ideas of our services and methods from the projects we have already done and communicate with us properly for what is expected for a happy and satisfying project of yours.
Kindly avoid demanding works too quick for unnecessary reasons or trying to blame us pointing other studios are even quicker than us, all our works are done in maximum speed without compromising any quality related process which may be unknown or unaware by client. So please be patient and trust us for a better result.
Smokers, druggers, drunk or alcoholics will be not be allowed inside the studio. Under such impolite circumstances we may even reject the project or work without any settlements.
Food or eatables aren't allowed inside the studio.
The studio control room is meant only for maximum three people including audio engineer during recording and only the artist inside the recording room, if there are more artists or other people kindly be seated in our reception room.
Do not turn any knobs or press any equipments without prior consent or advise from our audio engineer, most of the knobs or buttons posses technical calibrations or strict reasons behind their placement based on several factors even the artists headphone volume knobs or some funny toys or dolls. So kindly avoid such activities for a better experience with us.

Service Informations

Though there are three different categories of services provided based on type of works, they are still tagged differently based on color codes.

Red tagged services: All red tagged services are different studio recording workflows. Red tagged services will be always having hourly based studio charges.
Blue tagged services: All blue tagged services are different creative musical services. Creative musical services are not charged based on hours however they may have general fixed charges as usual or depending on the requirement and size of the project, there can be major or minor variations to the prices.
Non-tagged services: The only non-tagged service is audio post production under cinema category. Non-tagged services also are not charged based on hours however they may have general fixed charges as usual or depending on the requirement and size of the project, there can be major or minor variations to the prices.

All blue tagged and untagged services may subject to prior estimation of the prices. Once price estimation is done before initiating the project, 50% advance payment is recommended.

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